US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 27 for "Device for supporting homomorphic encryption operation and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,736, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Device for supporting homomorphic encryption operation and operating method thereof" was invented by Youngsik Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiyoup Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hanbyeul Na (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hongrak Son (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Hyunsang Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for supporting a homomorphic encryption operation includes a ciphertext conversion circuit configured to convert first ciphertexts corresponding to a first operation size to second ciphertexts corresponding to ...