ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,154, issued on July 15, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Search engine using causal replacement of search results for unprivileged access rights" 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. The search engine receives a search query from an unprivileged user or a user not having sufficient privileges to access the FBDL. It returns initial results to the unprivileged user including ...