ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,570, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method with homomorphic encryption operation" was invented by Andrey Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongwoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Maksim Deriabin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jieun Eom (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Rakyong Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus with a homomorphic encryption operation includes: one or more processors configured to: generate a modified vector by preprocessing vector components of an operand ciphertext of a blind rotation operation based on an order of a polynomial...