ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,846, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Open Text Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for secure file management via an aggregation of cloud storage services" was invented by Teo Winton Crofton (Sudbury, Mass.) and David Raissipour (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for aggregation and management of cloud storage among a plurality of providers via file fragmenting to provide increased reliability and security. In one implementation, fragments or blocks may be distributed among a plurality of cloud storage providers, such that no provider retains a comple...