US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Using timed oplocks to determine whether a file is eligible for dehydration" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,936, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using timed oplocks to determine whether a file is eligible for dehydration" was invented by Mattan Margalith (Bothell, Wash.), Jack Allen Nichols (Bothell, Wash.) and Andrew Keith LaChance (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system includes a processor; and a memory comprising programming instructions for execution by the processor to manage data files stored using both local and cloud data storage. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to obtain a handle with an oplock on a sele...