ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,692, issued on March 31, was assigned to PAPERCLIP INC. (Hackensack, N.J.).

"Methods for securing data" was invented by David M. Bridges (Toms River, N.J.), Ezekiel Kruglick (Poway, Calif.), Mitchell Mond (East Brunswick, N.J.), Alex Devia (Live Oak, Texas), Balram Singh (Manalapan, N.J.) and Timothy Werner Regewitz (Dunellen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securely processing data is provided. The method allows for processing data out of context to assure security and can use a combination of multiple encryptions, hashing techniques, homomorphic searching, two or more key owners and threat detection and response t...