ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,227, issued on May 27, was assigned to Code42 Software Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Forensic file service" was invented by Christopher Michael Montgomery (Blaine, Minn.), Peter John Lindquist (St. Paul, Minn.), Brent Aethon McCullough (Saint Paul, Minn.), Vijay Ramanathan (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Daniel Louis Sullivan (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for forensic file services is configured to receive data indicative of operations executed on a filesystem element stored on a computing resource associated with a first tenant, to and adjust the data according to an indicated database schema. The system is also configured to sto...