ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,980, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Homomorphic encryption key management" was invented by Akram Bitar (Haifa, Israel), Dov Murik (Haifa, Israel), Ehud Aharoni (Kfar Saba, Israel), Nir Drucker (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Omri Soceanu (Haifa, Israel) and Ronen Levy (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprising: generating, from a key-seed associated with a user, a set of homomorphic encryption (HE) keys associated with an HE scheme; receiving, from a key management system (KMS) associated with said HE scheme, an encrypted version of sai...