ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,749, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NEUSTAR INC. (Reston, Va.).

"Method and system for fully encrypted repository" was invented by Steven Todd Kirsch (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for using information in conjunction with a data repository includes encrypting data associated with the information with an encryption key, sending at least the encrypted data to the data repository, and possibly deleting the information. The method also includes receiving a request for the information from a remote device, and sending a request for the encrypted da...