ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,436, issued on March 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Distributed management of file modification-time field" was invented by Ezra N. Hoch (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Eli Weissbrem (Rehovot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for data storage includes assigning multiple different portions of a given object, which is stored in non-volatile storage, for access by multiple respective software modules running on one or more processors. Storage operations are performed by the software modules in the portions of the given object. Respective local values, which are indicative of most recent times the storage ...