ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,486, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to USEncryption Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Securely executing on a public computer code that operates on encrypted data based on one contiguous stage of linear 3-bit gates and a different stage of non-linear gates" was invented by Claudio Chamon (Lexington, Mass.), Jonathan Jakes-Schauer (Orlando, Fla.) and Andrei Ruckenstein (Brighton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is encrypted using only first and second stages of only 3-bit gates, that are linear, and non-linear, respectively. Each 3-bit gate for a function is conjugated by the first stage, i.e., straddled with the first stage and its i...