ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,160, issued on May 5, 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 server apparatus in a secure computation system includes: a table storage part that stores a table of secret shares of the product of a first value and a second value for combinations of shares of possible values of the first value and shares of possible values of the second value; a table shuffle part that shuffles indices of possible values of the first value and ind...