ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,032, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Material Security Inc. (San Francisco).
"One-shot challenge to search and access unredacted vaulted electronic communications" was invented by Ryan M. Noon (Mountain View, Calif.), Abhishek Agrawal (San Francisco) and Christopher J. Park (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool is disclosed for searching information redacted from electronic communications. The tool receives, based on input by a user into an interface of an electronic communication repository, a request to search through vaulted information, the vaulted information redacted from the electronic communication reposi...