ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,382, issued on July 8, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Management of indexed data to improve content retrieval processing" was invented by Saurabh Sanjay Deshpande (Sammamish, Wash.), Mina Mikhail (Bothell, Wash.), Matthew Francis Hurst (Seattle) and Riham Hassan Abdel-Moneim Mansour (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to processing operations configured to uniquely utilize indexing of content to improve content retrieval processing, particularly when working with large data sets. The techniques described herein enables efficient content retrieval when wor...