US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 7 for "Functional encryption system and method of performing functional encryption" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,710, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Functional encryption system and method of performing functional encryption" was invented by Wijik Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Heeseok Eun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A functional encryption system includes a key generation device configured to generate a public key and a secret key, based on a master key and a parameter vector, an encryption device configured to generate encrypted data by encrypting an input vector, based on the public key, and a decryption device configured to generate decrypted data correspond...