ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,608, issued on March 11, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Use of semantically segmented filenames" was invented by Lyle W. Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.) and William M. Parsel (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of validating the contents of an electronic file. The method comprises requesting an electronic file by an application executing on a computer system by providing a multi-segment filename, wherein the multi-segment filename comprises a unique delimiter between each of the segments of the multi-segment filename and one of the segments of the multi-segment filename is ...