ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,493, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Performance benchmarking with cascaded decryption" was invented by Axel Schroepfer (Borthen, Germany), Daniel Bernau (Karlsruhe, Germany), Johannes Haasen (Trier, Germany), Kilian Becher (Dresden, Germany) and Lars Baumann (Mannheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A benchmarking service is engineered to provide computing performance metric benchmarks based on computing performance metrics provided from a variety of providers without being exposed to the underlying computing performance metrics. A homomorphic encryption scheme is used in a threshold cryptogra...