ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,255, issued on May 20, was assigned to Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corp. (Shanghai) and INVENTEC Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Privacy computing method based on homomorphic encryption" was invented by Yu Te Ku (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Fan Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Chao Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Feng-Hao Liu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ming-Ching Chang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a privacy computing method based on homomorphic encryption, which includes steps as follows. The ciphertext data is received, where the ciphertext data has a floating-point homomorphic encryption data structure, and the floa...