US Patent Issued on Aug. 4 for "Encrypted file search" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,800, issued on Aug. 4.

"Encrypted file search" was invented by Prashant Nijasure (Durango, Colo.), Shai Guday (Durango, Colo.) and Elliot Daniel Lewis (Durango, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and system are provided for managing encrypted files. A file is received, wherein the file comprises file metadata. A large language model identifies keywords from the file, and generates keyword vector(s) from the identified keywords. The file is encrypted and indexed with the keyword vector(s) and the file metadata in a protected index."

The patent was filed on June 4, 2024, under Application No. 18/73...