ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,266, issued on June 30, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Secure multi-party computation" was invented by Tao Wei (Hangzhou, China), Yulong Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Ran Duan (Hangzhou, China) and Zhenfei Zhang (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of this specification provide a secure multi-party computation method and apparatus. According to the method in these embodiments, first, a TEE node cluster including K TEE nodes is joined based on a quantity N of data owners; then, a trusted execution environment is created in the TEE nodes, and a basic algorith...