ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,246, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Secret search system, secret search method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Ikumi Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a secret search system based on probabilistic encryption, a registration client device (20) registers data (201) to be searched for in secrecy and a keyword (200) corresponding to the data (201) in a secret search server device, and discloses disclosure bits, which are data to be externally disclosed and are part of data calculated deterministically using each keyword (200) registered in the secret search...