ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,385, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Dynamic format conversion for shared files" was invented by Jari Karppanen (Bellevue, Wash.) and David Chukwuemeka Chukwuma (Clinton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for dynamic format conversion of shared files. Computing devices can use different formats to store the same or substantially similar information. This difference in format can cause incompatibilities between such devices when these devices attempt to share files. The present disclosure can address this problem by providing for dynamic format conversion of sha...