ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,349, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ICTK Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method of calculating cipher and electronic device performing the method" was invented by Kwang Cho Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method of calculating a cipher and an electronic device performing the method. The method of calculating the cipher according to an embodiment of the present invention includes reading predetermined secret information t and a first intermediate result based on the secret information t, generating a random value k, calculating a second intermediate result l using the secret informatio...