ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,745, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Homomorphic operation system and operating method thereof" was invented by Hanbyeul Na (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangpyo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jongmin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Ho Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong-Min Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A homomorphic operation system according to an embodiment includes a homomorphic encryption device configured to output a first ciphertext data generated based on a first base, a homomorphic encrypt...