ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,665, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Secure computation apparatus, secure computation method, and program" was invented by Hiroki Sudo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The secure computation apparatus includes: a former half window frame column generation unit configured to generate, with respect to a vector subVector ({g-less than}, s+1, i} obtained by extracting elements from an (s+1)-th element to an i-th element of {g-less than}, a bit column obtained by an OR operation performed on all bits from the end to each position as a former half window frame flag column {wf-less than}; a latter half window fram...