US Patent Issued to Jinan University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Nanyang Technological University on May 12 for "Bootstrappable fully homomorphic attribute-based encryption method with unbounded circuit depth" (Chinese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,464, issued on May 12, was assigned to Jinan University (Guangzhou, China), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong) and Nanyang Technological University (Jurong West, Singapore).

"Bootstrappable fully homomorphic attribute-based encryption method with unbounded circuit depth" was invented by Jian Weng (Guangzhou, China), Shixin Chen (Guangzhou, China), Feixiang Zhao (Hong Kong), Man Ho Allen Au (Hong Kong), Huaxiong Wang (Jurong West, Singapore), Jian Guo (Jurong West, Singapore) and Chengxin Shu (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Homomorphic attribute-based encryption (HABE) is a useful cryptographic primitive ...