ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,031, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Homomorphic encryption offload for lightweight devices" was invented by Ashish Sardesai (Ashburn, Va.), Paritosh Tyagi (Boyds, Md.) and Venkata Josyula (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, devices, and computer-readable media for offloading lattice-based cryptographic operations to hybrid cloud computing system. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a first network request from a client device via a secure application programming interface (API), the request including unencr...