ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,825, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Parametric searching under fully homomorphic encryption" was invented by Hayim Shaul (Kfar Saba, Israel), Guy Moshkowich (Nes Ziyona, Israel) and Eyal Kushnir (Kfar Vradim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for identifying a leaf in a tree is provided. A processor set receives a first point representing one or more values within a d-dimensional space for identifying the leaf in the tree. The processor set generates a parameter for identifying the leaf in the tree. The processor set identifies a node at high...