ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,544, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea) and Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun University (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with homomorphic encryption" was invented by Jong-Seon No (Seoul, South Korea), Yongwoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Young-Sik Kim (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method with homomorphic encryption includes: receiving a first ciphertext corresponding to a first modulus; generating a second ciphertext corresponding to a second m...