ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,255, issued on May 5, was assigned to DISTILX LTD. (Kirkwall, Great Britain).

"Scalable utilization of encrypted platform device connection for legal intercept of messaging data" was invented by Finn Macleod (Kirkwall, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for intercepting and storing data transmitted between a device(s) and a messaging platform(s), the system including an intercept server such that when data is transmitted from the messaging platform(s) to the device(s), the data is also transmitted to the intercept server, the system automatically identifying the data and modifying/formatting the data to be normalized...