US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on May 12 for "Secure provision of keys for fully homomorphic encryption" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,462, issued on May 12, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Secure provision of keys for fully homomorphic encryption" was invented by Amedeo Veneroso (Caserta, Italy), Vincenzo Pascariello (San Nicola la Strada, Italy) and Alfonso Tramontano (Caserta, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method including: the generation, by a computing device, of a first key and a bootstrapping key; the provision of the first key and an identifier of the bootstrapping key to an electronic device and the provision of the bootstrapping key and the identifier to a server; the fully homom...