ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,227, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Encryption computing system and encryption method" was invented by Wi Jik Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encryption computing system may include; a processor performing calculations between homomorphic encrypted data including cyphertexts, and a non-volatile memory device storing the homomorphic encrypted data. The processor performs a first multiplication between a first cyphertext and a second cyphertext to generate a first intermediate cyphertext, performs a second multiplication between the first intermediate cyphertex...