ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,779, issued on July 14, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Secure distributed computing system and computing method" was invented by Bin Yang (Tokyo) and Young Joo Chung (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a computing system including: a first device configured to securely manage first secret information and first permutation information; and a second device configured to securely manage second secret information and second permutation information, and wherein first managed information that is managed by the first device from among first permutation results obtained as a result of permutating the f...