ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,344, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Secure distributed document discovery via vector similarity" was invented by Joseph Vincent Standerfer (Austin, Texas), Oshry Ben-Harush (Cedar Park, Texas), Xin Liang (Redmond, Wash.), Te Ken (Leander, Texas) and Daryl Bernard Hammett (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secure distributed document discovery via vector similarity is performed by a data discovery service. The service receives a request to perform a search using input data. The service sends the input data and an embedding protocol to different data repositories that comprise v...