US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, CHOSUN UNIVERSITY on Oct. 14 for "Method and device for performing homomorphic permutation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,263, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea) and INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, CHOSUN UNIVERSITY (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Method and device for performing homomorphic permutation" was invented by Joon-Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jong-Seon No (Seoul, South Korea), Yong-Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seung-Jae Chae (Seoul, South Korea) and Young-Sik Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a homomorphic permutation by a server includes: generating, via a ciphertext generation portion, a first ciphertext by adding noise to the bas...