ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,617, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Nuix Ltd. (Sydney).

"Systems and methods for parallelized custom data-processing and search" was invented by David Sitsky (Garran, Australia) and Edward Sheehy (Willoughby, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides systems and methods for data processing by means of an ongoing background process on an end-user's computer. As a user receives and generates data, files are analyzed. A container file is opened into the volatile memory and its contents (including data and metadata) are extracted, without requiring an index to be created. The extracted components are analyzed ...