ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,417, issued on May 27, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Methods for managing user permissions" was invented by Praveen Veeramachaneni (Morganville, N.J.) and Tanmay Garg (Eatontown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for remotely managing user permissions through computing device comprising an index server in communication with a user interface executing on a second computing device and file server(s) comprising data objects wherein the file server is a third computing device different from the first and second computing devices. The index server comprises data structures cont...