US Patent Issued to DIGITAL GUARDIAN on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for tracing data across file-related operations" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,442, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DIGITAL GUARDIAN LLC (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for tracing data across file-related operations" was invented by Jaimen Dee Hoopes (Lehi, Utah) and Christian J Weibell (Lindon, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods of tracing data. A tracing engine may receive, via the user interface, a selection of a target file or an event involving the target file. The tracing engine may generate, responsive to receiving the selection, a trace of first data in the target file to a plurality of file instances in a network each having at least one version of ...