ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,752, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Polynomial function secret sharing" was invented by Nolan Miranda (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Vipin Singh Sehrawat (Shugart, Singapore) and Foo Yee Yeo (Shugart, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polynomial function secret sharing provides for computation of reconstruction share results for a polynomial function on an input. An allocatable share of the polynomial function is received at a computing system of the share result computation systems. The allocatable share is generated from the polynomial function. Each of the allocatable shares is distribu...