US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 24 for "Polynomial evaluation under fully homomorphic encryption" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,355, issued on March 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Polynomial evaluation under fully homomorphic encryption" was invented by Allon Adir (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Ramy Masalha (Kafr Qari, Israel), Ehud Aharoni (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Hayim Shaul (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment expands a polynomial into a plurality of products, each product in the plurality of products comprising a scaling coefficient multiplied by a sub-polynomial, each sub-polynomial comprising a sum of a plurality of addends, wherein a degree of each sub-polynomial is equal to a grouping par...