ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,803, issued on May 20, was assigned to Alchemi Data Management Inc. (Friday Harbor, Wash.).

"File system protocol routing platform having a local reflected copy of a remote file system structure" was invented by Robert Charles Sims (Round Rock, Texas) and Michael Randolph Jones (Friday Harbor, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A routing platform coupled to a data network maintains, on local storage of the routing platform, a reflected file system structure corresponding to that of a file system on a network file share. The file system includes a file system object including file system object data, and the reflected file system st...