ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,536, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ZAMA SAS (Paris).

"Computation on encoded-and-encrypted values" was invented by Anas Boudi (Paris), Ilaria Chillotti (Paris), Damien Ligier (Paris) and Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Noel Orfila (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to a cryptographic method of performing an encrypted computation on a set of one or more encoded-and-encrypted values. A value is encoded-and-encrypted as encryptions of multiple respective subvalues. A subvalue has a corresponding message modulus and carry-message modulus larger than the message modulus. A value is encoded-and-encrypted without...