US Patent Issued to VAULTREE on Jan. 20 for "Searchable symmetric encryption" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,484, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to VAULTREE Ltd. (Ireland).

"Searchable symmetric encryption" was invented by Shaun McBrearty (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed towards a method of generating a modified permuterm index entry for use in a search for a keyword in a portion of an encrypted data collection, including identifying a keyword in one or more portions of an encrypted data collection; generating a permuterm index entry for the keyword, wherein the permuterm index entry comprises X values including a delimiting value inserted after the last value of the keyword, wherein the deli...