ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,555, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Synchronizing file data between computer systems" was invented by Marian Trandafir (Sammamish, Wash.), Jason Daniel Shay (Seattle) and Ivelin Lyubenov Zheglov (Duvall, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe implementation of an exemplary synchronization protocol to identify file data for synchronization as well as negotiate how to achieve data transport for synchronization of the file data. In one example, a request for synchronization of data is received from a processing device. In res...