ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,603, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ALIBABA (CHINA) Co. LTD. (Zhejiang Province, China).

"Multiplication unit, number field transformation circuit and privacy computation device" was invented by Xuanle Ren (Shanghai) and Zhen Gu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplication unit includes first, second, third and fourth receiving terminals, arithmetic units and multiplexers. In complex number mode, the first and second receiving terminals receive a real part value and an imaginary part value of a first complex number, respectively, whereas the third and fourth receiving terminals receive a real part value and an imaginary...