ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,222, issued on May 27, was assigned to OPEN TEXT SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"Method and system for storing documents" was invented by Peter Ginzinger (Ubersee, Germany), Matthias Specht (Grobenzell, Germany) and Stefan Ochs (Baldham, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods for storing documents in a cloud storage system comprising a cloud processor and a plurality of storage components are disclosed. Particularly, certain embodiments comprise, at the cloud processor, providing at least one storage component attribute for each of the plurality of storage components, the at least one storage component a...