ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,863, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Optimized file storage strategy for increasing usability of key files" was invented by Dong Zhang (Shanghai), Yinghui Liu (Shanghai), Wanqing Zheng (Shanghai) and Weiwei Jiang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a storage and a processor. The storage stores a key file in a partition of the storage. The processor receives a request for the key file and determines whether the key file is located within the partition of the storage. In response to the key file not being within the partition of the storage, the proces...