US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 29 for "Metadata extraction based on resource attributes and user-defined policy and topology" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,421, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Metadata extraction based on resource attributes and user-defined policy and topology" was invented by Narayan Nevrekar (Sammamish, Wash.), Vishal Kumar Seshagirirao Anil (Redmond, Wash.), Justin R. Dellamore (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Heriknaz Vermishyan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of performing metadata extraction based on resource attributes and user-defined policy and topology. A hierarchical resource-grouping construct, which is selected from hierarchical resource-grouping ...