ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,512, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Homomorphic encryption in a healthcare network environment, system and methods" was invented by Patrick Soon-Shiong (Culver City, Calif.), Harsh Kupwade-Patil (Plano, Texas), Ravi Seshadri (Plano, Texas) and Nicholas J. Witchey (Laguna Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for homomorphic encryption in a healthcare network environment is provided and includes receiving digital data over the healthcare network at a data custodian server in a plurality of formats from various data sources, encrypting the data according to a...