US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 12 for "Reshaping data structures for homomorphic computations using multiplication by identity elements" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,618, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reshaping data structures for homomorphic computations using multiplication by identity elements" was invented by Nir Drucker (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Ehud Aharoni (Kfar Saba, Israel), Gilad Ezov (Nesher, Israel) and Hayim Shaul (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor to receive a ciphertext including an encrypted packed plaintext. The processor can, in response to detecting that a reshape is to be executed for a data structure including the packed ciphertext, identify a target shape for the...