Compugroup Medical SE Assigned Patent

Compugroup Medical SE, Koblenz, Germany, has been assigned a patent (9,558,366) developed by Spalka, Adrian, and Lehnhardt, Jan, Koblenz, Germany, for a “computer system for storing and retrieval of encrypted data items, client computer, computer program product and computer-implemented method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computer system is disclosed herein for storage and retrieval of encrypted data items, such as for storing encrypted data items in the cloud, as well as a respective client computer, client computer system, computer program product and computer-implemented method. Embodiments of the disclosed computer system allow for searching for encrypted data items stored in a database based on functional values associated with the data items. The retrieval of the data items from the database can be performed without knowledge of a respective cryptographic key by the database.“

The patent application was filed on May 12, 2014 (14/275,486).