ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,789, issued on May 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatically fingerprinting of cloud documents" was invented by Pak Ho Philip Kwok (London), Ahmed Hassan (London), Jack Davey (Beckenham, Great Britain), Roman Sosnin (Petach Tikva, Israel) and Smitha Sushil (Shirley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, system, and/or computer readable medium for automatically selective updating a data fingerprint on a plurality of proxy datacenters, the method comprising: generating through a cloud connector fingerprints of a stored set of data on a cloud drive; transmitting, from the cloud connector th...