ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,340, issued on July 1, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Search engine using self-supervised learning and predictive models for searches based on partial information" was invented by Amihai Savir (Newton, Mass.), Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel) and Oshry Ben Harush (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search engine responding to a user query to find relevant data assets in a federation business data lake (FBDL) system by monitoring and recording interactions of known users interacting with data assets in the FBDL system. Predicted data usage for unknown or new users is derived by training a...