US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Sept. 9 for "Secret calculation system, apparatus, method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,487, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Secret calculation system, apparatus, method and program" was invented by Ryo Kikuchi (Musashino, Japan), Dai Ikarashi (Musashino, Japan) and Hiroki Sudo (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure computation device 1n of a secure computation system according to an aspect of this invention includes a first calculation unit 11n, a second calculation unit 12n, a third calculation unit 13n, a fourth calculation unit 14n, a fifth calculation unit 15n, a sixth calculation unit 16n, a seventh calculation unit 17n, and an output unit 18n. ...