ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,444, issued on March 24, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Program conversion apparatus and method to convert program into a homomorphic encryption program" was invented by Seong Cheon Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Woo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Su Yeon Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program conversion apparatus converts a first program to which homomorphic encryption is not applied into a second program to which the homomorphic encryption is applied. The program conversion apparatus may include a memory, which stores a first library fo...