ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,142, issued on May 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Secure computation system, secure computation server apparatus, secure computation method, and secure computation program" was invented by Hikaru Tsuchida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure computation system comprises at least five secure computation server apparatuses connected to each other via a network and performs secure computation on a value stored while being secret-shared, and each of the secure computation server apparatuses has a comparative verification part that compares values, which should be the same, received from at least three secure computation...