ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,902, issued on Nov. 4.

"Method and system for data storage and retrieval" was invented by Elliott Pickard (London), Stephen Marcantonio (London) and Michael Alexander Cowley (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for data storage and retrieval. The method comprising receiving data entries for events, wherein each event amongst events comprises versions having different values of data entries stored therein; generating and storing encoded value for each version of each event indicative of access permissions exclusive for user(s) amongst users for each version of each event; recording deviations, in each data entry...