US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on June 2 for "Private information retrieval with homomorphic encrypted information" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,826, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Private information retrieval with homomorphic encrypted information" was invented by David R. Zaret (Columbia, Md.), Roxanne W. Holden (Silver Spring, Md.) and Vivian Maloney (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing private information retrieval may include a data requesting computer that is configured to receive a query string, homomorphically encrypt the query string to generate an encrypted query, transmit the encrypted query to a data repository computer, and receive resultant encrypted datasets. The data repository comp...