ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,945, issued on May 13, was assigned to Egnyte Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method of presenting a hybrid cloud cache as a file system" was invented by Andrew Guerra (Mountain View, Calif.), Ajay Salpekar (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 presenting a hybrid cloud cache as a file system. The system implements a set of standard file system command line interfaces that present the objects stored by the hybrid cloud cache to users of the system as if the users were viewing and interacting with a traditional file system. The system provides an...