ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,112, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Homomorphic encryption operator, storage device including the same, and level configuration method thereof" was invented by Young Sik Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiyoup Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hanbyeul Na (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hong Rak Son (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seonghyeog Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A homomorphic encryption operator includes: a level configuration unit configured to set an encryption level by selecting a plurality of prime numbers of different values according to a scale factor c...