US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on April 8 for "Systems and methods for a specialized computer file system" (Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,342, issued on April 8, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Systems and methods for a specialized computer file system" was invented by Oscar J. Blass (Bentonville, Ark.) and Michele M. McNully (Bentonville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer file system for managing data storage resources is provided. The system comprises storage server configured to receive data file from a client application, modify the file name to include an expiration stamp, upload the at least one data file to the data storage device, generate a file link associated with the at least one data file, and transmit the file link to...