ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,297, issued on June 10, was assigned to Parallels International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"File sharing over secure connections" was invented by Alexey Petrukhin (Tallinn, Estonia), Grigory Nikolaenko (Moscow), Nikolay Dobrovolskiy (Moscow) and Serguei Beloussov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for file sharing over secure connections. An example method comprises: receiving a client request identifying a file sharing host and a file residing on the file sharing host; establishing a secure client connection; responsive to identifying a management connection with the file sharing host, transmitting ...