ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,946, issued on March 3, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Encryption device, decryption device, storage system, information processing device, encryption method, decryption method, decompression device, and decompression method" was invented by Yoshihiro Ohba (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an encryption device includes a generator configured to generate an N-dimensional random number vector, a calculator configured to calculate a value of a predetermined function for the random number vector, and an encryption circuit configured to encrypt the leading component by a public k...