ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,141, issued on June 16, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Verifiable polynomial function secret sharing" was invented by Foo Yee Yeo (Singapore), Nolan Ashvin Miranda (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Hannah Elizabeth Davis (Shakopee, Minn.) and Jason Hwei Ming Ying (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dealer receives a first addend function and a second addend function. A function client provides first validation parameters, each first validation parameter corresponding to a coefficient of the first addend function and a corresponding coefficient of the second addend function. The sum of the first addend functio...