ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,753, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Bevara Technologies LLC (Watertown, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for selecting digital data for archival" was invented by Maja Bystrom (Watertown, Mass.) and Jerome Gorin (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data processing engines are provided that include an electronic display, a decoding functionality selector, a decoding functionality generator in communication with the decoding functionality selector, and a decoding functionality verifier, each configured as described anywhere herein. Related methods of automatically constructing platform-independent decoders for encoded digital data enco...