ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,877, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Secret calculation system, secret calculation method, and secret calculation program" was invented by Koutarou Tamura (Tokyo) and Yasunori Hokazono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secret calculation system includes an acquisition unit that acquires each of a plurality of pieces of processing target data indicating data encrypted using a plurality of pieces of different key information generated by a plurality of information processing systems, from a corresponding information terminal of a plurality of information terminals, a secret calculation ...