US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, CHOSUN UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Key management system for homomorphic encryption operation and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,750, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (South Korea) and INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, CHOSUN UNIVERSITY (South Korea).

"Key management system for homomorphic encryption operation and method of operating the same" was invented by Jong Seon No (Seoul, South Korea), Joon Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Sik Kim (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A homomorphic encryption operation key management system receives a public key and a hierarchical Galois key from a client device, verifies validity of a token in response to receiving the token and a request for a ho...