ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,759, issued on May 27, was assigned to NTT Research Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Functional encryption for quadratic functions" was invented by Hoeteck Wee (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to systems, methods, network devices, and machine-readable media for improved constructions of public-key functional encryption schemes for quadratic functions. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a new functional encryption scheme to compute quadratic functions so that the data owner controls what can be computed but is not involved in the calculation, and generates a decryption key which allows one to...