ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,165, issued on June 9, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Multi-party computation system" was invented by Daniel J. Weitzner (Washington), Andrew W Lo (Weston, Mass.), Vinod Vaikuntanathan (Somerville, Mass.), Taylor Reynolds (Belmont, Mass.), Leo R. De Castro (Lexington, Ky.) and Jeffrey Schiller (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments relate to a system for performing a multi-party computation among a plurality of parties. The system receives encrypted data sets generated by devices associated with the plurality of parties, wherein each of the encrypted data sets is g...