ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,903, issued on July 22, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Cloud storage backend" was invented by Rhea Lin (New York), Karthikram Rajadurai (San Leandro, Calif.), Arthur Huang (San Francisco), Joyce Chen (San Francisco), Kushagra Gupta (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jason Symons (Dublin, Calif.), Vignesh Bhuvaneshwar Iyer (Los Altos, Calif.), Samuel Goldman (Silver Spring, Md.), Karthikeyan Kailasam (Aurora, Ill.), Scott McConnell (Berwyn, Pa.), Caglar Iskender (Redmond, Wash.) and Chris Frost (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video streaming system including a video cache system having a cache database and a video stora...