ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,609, issued on May 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Secure NTT and INTT" was invented by Mojtaba Bisheh Niasar (Durham, N.H.), Naga Kiranmayee Upadhyayula (Snohomish, Wash.), Emre Karabulut (Redmond, Wash.) and Bharat S. Pillilli (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for secure number theoretic transform (NTT) and inverse NTT (INTT) operations are provided. A circuit includes a memory configured to store polynomial coefficients, butterfly operator circuits coupled to receive the polynomial coefficients and generate, after iterations of operating o...