ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,594, issued on March 11, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Parsing a directory tree to translate permissions" was invented by Akash Singh (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Architectures and techniques are described that can translate permissions from a first storage system to a second storage system. Such can be applied during a data migration operation that migrate storage data from the first storage system to the second storage system. A directory tree structure of the storage data can be explored to identify one or more target directories that can be used to leverage an inheritance property. Permiss...