ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,507, issued on June 3, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for hardware-based accelerated arithmetic operation on homomorphically encrypted message" was invented by Seong Cheon Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Woo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jung Chan Na (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and apparatus for a hardware-based accelerated arithmetic operation on homomorphically encrypted messages. The method of performing hardware-based modular multiplication on homomorphically encrypted messages according to the pre...