ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,853, issued on March 25, was assigned to Parallels International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Virtual client file systems and methods within remote sessions" was invented by Evgeniy Korepanov (Moscow) and Nikolay Dobrovolskiy (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes establishing, by an application server, a remote access session with a client device, and creating, by a file system agent running on the application server, a metadata-only virtual file system associated with the remote access session, wherein the virtual file system only comprises file metadata associated with a plurality of files...