US Patent Issued to NTT on Feb. 10 for "Secure search method, system thereof, apparatus thereof, encryption apparatus, searcher terminal, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,749, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Secure search method, system thereof, apparatus thereof, encryption apparatus, searcher terminal, and program" was invented by Satoshi Takahashi (Musashino, Japan), Koji Chida (Musashino, Japan), Koki Hamada (Musashino, Japan) and Atsunori Ichikawa (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data search by secure computation is efficiently performed and retrieved data is safely provided. A searcher terminal acquires condition data. The searcher terminal extracts a feature from the condition data. The searcher terminal encrypts the feature of the condition data. A secure ...