ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,182, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method with homomorphic encryption are provided. A method for performing a homomorphic encryption operation may include generating a second ciphertext, having a second total number of dimensions, by performing a key switching operation using ...