ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,464, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to OPEN TEXT HOLDINGS INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Retention framework for data stores" was invented by Jegan Pandian (Tirunelveli, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and products for performing file retention operations in a system in which a content management system accesses multiple cloud-based data stores that are compliant with a common file transfer protocol, but use different vendor-specific protocols for file retention operations, where a retention framework is coupled between the content management system and the data stores. The content management system performs file ...