ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,225, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device, host device and data transfer method thereof" was invented by Youngsik Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiyoup Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hongrak Son (Anyang-si, South Korea), Dongmin Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Junho Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaehun Jang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transmitting data in a storage device includes encrypting original data based on a homomorphic encryption algorithm to generate encrypted data, generating a parameter for regeneration of a ciphertext highe...