ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,814, issued on May 20, was assigned to Nuix Ltd. (Australia).

"Systems and methods for scalable delocalized information governance" was invented by David Sitsky (Garran, Australia), Matthew Westwood Hill (Sydney), Robin Power (Sydney), Eddie Sheehy (Willoughby, Australia) and Stephen Stewart (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to electronic indexing, and more particularly, to the indexing, in a cloud, data held in a cloud. Systems and methods of the invention index data by accessing the data in place in the cloud and breaking a job into work items and sending the work items to multiple cloud processes that ca...