US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Evaluating convolutions using encrypted data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,340, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Evaluating convolutions using encrypted data" was invented by Dongwoo Kim (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 one or more input datasets of real numbers into a plaintext polynomial with integral coefficients that do not include an imaginary component and generates an input ciphertext by encrypting the plaintext polynomial according to a Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) scheme. The input ciphertext includes at least encrypted coefficients of an input polynomial. A serv...