ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,311, issued on March 11, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Identity-based encryption method based on lattices" was invented by Jung Hee Cheon (Seoul, South Korea), Yongha Son (Seoul, South Korea) and Duhyeong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A calculation device is disclosed. The calculation device includes: a memory storing at least one instruction and identity information; and a processor performing the at least one instruction, wherein the processor may randomly sample small elements, generate a function-processed output value by function-processing the stored i...