ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,479, issued on June 3, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Using a custom filesystem to secure the contents of a filesystem" was invented by Giuseppe Scrivano (Milan), Alexander Larsson (Stockholm) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (Puteaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device executing a kernel-based operating system creates a content-addressed object store containing files of a filesystem. The computing device generates a metadata file that describes characteristics of the files of the filesystem that are in the content-addressed object store. The computing device, in a kernel of the operating system, generates ...