ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,989, issued on June 24, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for creating a digital fingerprint library" was invented by Nickolay Berko (Shaffhausen, Switzerland), Serg Bell (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system and method that relates to creation of a digital fingerprint library for storing information of a document containing protected information. The system mainly includes a fragment generator, a fingerprint value generator, and the digital fingerprint library. The fragment generator generates fragments o...