US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 29 for "System and method for managing cloud-based data ownership using access requests" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,122, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for managing cloud-based data ownership using access requests" was invented by Krishnan Varadarajan (Redmond, Wash.), Malcolm James Smith (Bellevue, Wash.) and Vijay Raghunathan (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a first data access request from a first computing device for accessing a cloud storage portion of a plurality of cloud storage portions associated with a cloud-based storage resource. A current ownership sequence identifier associa...