US Patent Issued to Thinkspan on May 27 for "Zero knowledge personal assistant" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,377, issued on May 27, was assigned to Thinkspan LLC (Highland Park, Ill.).

"Zero knowledge personal assistant" was invented by Brian Samuel Taylor (Highland Park, Ill.), Matthew Maxwell Murphy (Chicago) and James Michael Faris (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zero-knowledge personal assistant is enabled by a universal data scaffold. Because the information is mapped to a universal data scaffold in a structured format, a data management platform can easily organize, display, and draw associations between the information. The universal data scaffold and structured user data resides on a user's device, preventing data from bei...