ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,968, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Calculation system, calculation method, and information storage medium" was invented by Bin Yang (Tokyo) and Young Joo Chung (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a computing system including: a first device configured to securely manage first secret information; and a second device configured to securely manage second secret information, wherein first public product being a product of first computation information and first public information, third secret information securely managed by the first device, and fourth secret information secur...