US Patent Issued to NEC on June 17 for "Method and computation entity for performing computation of a function over encrypted data" (German, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,404, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and computation entity for performing computation of a function over encrypted data" was invented by Claudio Soriente (Heidelberg, Germany) and Dario Fiore (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing computation of a function over encrypted data by a computation entity is provided. According to the method, the computation of a quadratic function is performed by the computation entity, the encrypted data are encrypted by a linearly homomorphic encryption scheme, and a homomorphic message authentication code is used for providing verifiable computatio...