US Patent Issued to Google on May 13 for "Response-hiding searchable encryption" (New York, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,142, issued on May 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Response-hiding searchable encryption" was invented by Kevin Yeo (Mountain View, Calif.), Sarvar Patel (Montville, N.J.) and Giuseppe Persiano (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing response-hiding searchable encryption includes receiving a search query for a keyword from a user device associated with a user. The keyword appears in one or more encrypted documents within a corpus of encrypted documents stored on an untrusted storage device. The method also includes accessing a document oblivious key-value storage (OKVS) to obtain a lis...