ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,393, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Tournament type selection operations on encrypted data" was invented by Ramy Masalha (Kafr Qari, Israel), Ehud Aharoni (Kfar Saba, Israel), Nir Drucker (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Gilad Ezov (Nesher, Israel), Hayim Shaul (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Omri Soceanu (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for performing a tournament selection process of a computer function. A request is received to execute the computer function on an input vector data structure, where a result of the computer function is provided by execu...