ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,343, issued on April 8, was assigned to Nasuni Corp. (Boston).

"Cloud-native global file system with multi-site support using push classes" was invented by Daphne M. Shaw (Newton, Mass.) and Andres Rodriguez (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for data sharing among multiple filers that share a volume in a private or public cloud object store is implemented. In this approach, a mechanism is provided to enable a local filer to determine whether other filers that are sharing the volume have a consistent view of new data being written to the cloud object store by the local filer. The begins by associating together a colle...