US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Efficient computation of matrix determinants under fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) using single instruction multiple data (SIMD)" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,329, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Efficient computation of matrix determinants under fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) using single instruction multiple data (SIMD)" was invented by Allon Adir (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Hayim Shaul (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Ehud Aharoni (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product for homomorphic computation enables secure computation of determinants of a matrix under Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). According to this disclosure, encrypted data that contains the values of a matrix is rece...