US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Dec. 16 for "Directory tree delete as a supported file system operation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,089, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Directory tree delete as a supported file system operation" was invented by Neal Robert Christiansen (Bellevue, Wash.), Chandra Kumar Konamki Vijayamuneeswaralu (Monroe, Wash.) and Neeraj Kumar Singh (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system described herein introduces a file system operation that enables a file system to delete a directory tree without the overhead associated with opening each file in the directory tree, marking the file for deletion, and closing the file. Accordingly, the file system is able to delete directories ...