ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,968, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Longevity Strategists Inc. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Apparatus for and method of secure data partitioning and zero-retention artificial intelligence (AI) interaction" was invented by Suzanne Schmitt (Summerville, S.C.), Jennifer Late (Tysons, Va.), Tom West (Falls Church, Va.), Eli Wood (Boulder, Colo.), Keith Pattison (Boulder, Colo.) and Bobby Nicholson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for and method of secure data partitioning and zero-retention AI interaction. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing instructions to receive a user response via a graphica...