ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,152, issued on April 21, was assigned to SMARSH INC. (Portland, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for low cost data indexing" was invented by John Onusko (Portland, Ore.), Gopalakrishnan Ramanujam (Portland, Ore.) and Gregory Breeze (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for data indexing includes memory and at least one computing device in communication with the memory. The computing device can store data objects in the memory. The computing device can assign an importance level to, or determine an applicable policy for, each data object by at least analyzing each data object to determine an importance level for each dat...