US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 22 for "Fully homomorphic encryption for fixed-point elements" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,267, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Fully homomorphic encryption for fixed-point elements" was invented by Nir Drucker (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Guy Moshkowich (Nes Ziyona, Israel), Tomer Pelleg (Haifa, Israel) and Hayim Shaul (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, as input, a ciphertext x representing a computational result of an approximated fully-homomorphic encryption (FHE) scheme, wherein ciphertext x comprises an underlying number m and an accumulated computational error e; iteratively, (i) performing a bit...