ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,997, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Data objects in a distributed file system" was invented by Shyam Narayan Singh (Hyderabad Telangana, India), Anshul Data (Hyderabad Telangana, India), Rajesh Boddu (Hyderabad Telangana, India), Prasad Boddupalli (Hyderabad Telangana, India), Giri Prasad Reddy Desireddygari (Hyderabad Telangana, India), Premkumar Jonnala (Hyderabad Telangana, India) and Chandra Guru Kiran Babu Sanapala (Hyderabad Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for writing data objects to a distributed file system are described. In an exampl...