US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on June 23 for "Privacy-preserving distributed computing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,886, issued on June 23, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Privacy-preserving distributed computing" was invented by Dongwoo Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Mahdi Soleymani (San Diego), Robert Mateescu (San Jose, Calif.) and Cyril Guyot (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device encodes at least two datasets using one or more encoding functions to generate encoded data portions that are encrypted using a first key according to an approximate Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) scheme to generate encrypted data portions that are sent to a plurality of servers. Encrypted results are rece...