ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,412, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Niobium Microsystems Inc. (Dayton, Ohio).

"Fully homomorphic encrypted processing acceleration" was invented by Georgios Dimou (San Diego), David A. Archer (Sherwood, Ore.), Brian Huffman (Portland, Ore.), Tynan McAuley (San Francisco) and Michiel Van Beirendonck (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for processing fully homogeneous encrypted data comprises a command input with pipeline stages and a register file coupled to the command input via a non-pipelined stage and an ultimate pipelined stage. Further, the device includes various multiplexers to allow for usage of a mul...