ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,915, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cyborg Inc. (New York).
"Semantic search and retrieval over encrypted vector space" was invented by Nicolas Thomas Mathieu Dupont (New York) and Alexandre Helle (Forest Hills, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for performing end-to-end encrypted semantic search and retrieval are disclosed. The system is configured to perform semantic searches of encrypted data, using product quantization and distance scores to facilitate efficient and secure retrieval of relevant data. User queries, indexes, document identifiers and document contents remain encrypted throughout the search ...