US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 15 for "Automatic file version verification within electronic mail" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,957, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic file version verification within electronic mail" was invented by Kulvir Singh Bhogal (Fort Worth, Texas), Michael Charles Hollinger (Austin, Texas), Jennifer E. Oliver (Austin, Texas), Christina K. Lauridsen (Austin, Texas) and Robert R. Peterson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include determining metadata for a file responsive to initiating an operation on the file stored within a client system and determining a storage location within a file repository of a master version of the file from the metadata...