ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,157, issued on June 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and IUCF-HYU (Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method with intersection operation" was invented by Miran Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method includes receiving, from a first device, ciphertext corresponding to elements of a first data set of the first device, performing, based on a match function defined for elements of a second data set of a second device, an intersection operation between the ciphertext and the elements of the ...