ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,895, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Portal26 Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Encrypted analytical vault for trusted access" was invented by Arti Raman (Los Gatos, Calif.), Nikita Raman (Los Gatos, Calif.), Karthikeyan Mariappan (Los Gatos, Calif.), Fadil Mesic (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Seshadhri Pakshi Rajan (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encrypted analytical vault may implement an entanglement process in data encryption when storing the data, and may include an native search plugin for searching the encrypted data. The encrypted analytical vault thus allows the data stored in the vault to be searchable, aggregable...