ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,841, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NeuroBlade Ltd. (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

"Inline data reduction" was invented by Yaron Kittner (Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel) and Gal Hai (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include a data filter system including an interface and data filter circuitry. The data filter circuitry is configured to receive a data filter initiation signal via the interface, and in response to receipt of the data filter initiation signal, perform at least one operation associated with a data query, wherein the data query implicates a body of data stored in at least one storage unit; where...