ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,729, issued on March 17, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Accelerator generating enable signal" was invented by Seong-Cheon Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung-Chan Na (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyunwoo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Suyeon Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an accelerator which includes a first to a K-th stage performing an NTT (Number Theoretic Transform) operation of first input data including a polynomial of a homomorphic ciphertext, the first to K-th stages being connected in series, and a first assist circuit generatin...