US Patent Issued to Evernorth Strategic Development on March 11 for "Encrypted database systems including homomorphic encryption" (Florida, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,291, issued on March 11, was assigned to Evernorth Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).

"Encrypted database systems including homomorphic encryption" was invented by Jeffrey Parulan (Tampa, Fla.) and Floyd W. Shackelford (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method of querying a cryptographic data store includes maintaining an encryption configuration data structure. The method includes, in response to receiving a first query, identifying first data and consulting the encryption configuration data structure to identify a first encryption regime for the first data. The method includes, in response to the first e...