ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,343, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Search engine using predictive models based on partial information for a population of possible users through an optimized consensus mechanism" was invented by Amihai Savir (Newton, Mass.), Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel) and Oshry Ben Harush (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search engine responding to a user query to find relevant data assets in a federation business data lake (FBDL) system based on interactions of known users interacting with data assets in the FBDL system. Predicted data usage for a population of possible u...