US Patent Issued to Niobium Microsystems on April 14 for "Fully homomorphic encrypted processing acceleration" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,756, issued on April 14, was assigned to Niobium Microsystems Inc. (Dayton, Ohio).

"Fully homomorphic encrypted processing acceleration" was invented by Georgios Dimou (San Diego), David W. Archer (Sherwood, Calif.), Brian Huffman (Leuven, Calif.), Tynan McAuley (Portland Portland, Calif.) and Michiel Van Beirendonck (San Francisco, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing calculation time for processing fully homomorphic encrypted (FHE) data comprises pre-calculating a second half of a key-switching key, storing the second half of the key-switching key in memory, and receiving FHE data. After the FHE data is rec...