US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 18 for "Database table joining under fully homomorphic encryption" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,118, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Database table joining under fully homomorphic encryption" was invented by Ramy Masalha (Kafr Qari, Israel), Allon Adir (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Hayim Shaul (Kfar Saba, Israel), Ehud Aharoni (Kfar Saba, Israel), Omri Soceanu (Haifa, Israel) and Nir Drucker (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment appends, into a concatenated table, a second plurality of records in a second table to a first plurality of records in a first table. An embodiment sorts, according to each identification value in the concatenated table, ...