US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 3 for "Querying fully homomorphic encryption encrypted databases using client-side preprocessing or post-processing" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,172, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Querying fully homomorphic encryption encrypted databases using client-side preprocessing or post-processing" was invented by Allon Adir (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Michael Mirkin (Haifa, Israel), Ramy Masalha (Kafr Qari, Israel), Ehud Aharoni (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Omri Soceanu (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor to receive a preprocessed query from a client device for a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) encrypted database. The processor can execute the preprocessed query on the FHE encrypted da...