ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,502, issued on April 21, was assigned to Supergate Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Query information processing method using fully homomorphic encrypted database with field expansion and computing device for performing the same" was invented by Seung Min Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, a query information processing method of a database performed on a computing device includes: identifying query information requested from a client; acquiring initial search result data from a fully homomorphic encrypted database in response to the query information; performing a finite exten...