ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,474, issued on May 13, was assigned to Egnyte Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for enhancing content collaboration by conflict detection and resolution in a hybrid cloud cache" was invented by Upendra Singh (Mountain View, Calif.), Ajay Salpekar (Mountain View, Calif.), Bhaskar Guthikonda (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew Guerra (Mountain View, Calif.) and David Tang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for enhancing content collaboration by conflict detection and resolution. A hybrid cloud cache receives a request from a client to upload an object to the cloud. The hybrid cloud cac...