ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,944, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamically assigned file permission and access" was invented by Shiv Kumar (Pune, India), Anurag Sushil Chandra (Pune, India) and Avadut Mungre (Bicholim, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards dynamically, and automatically, adjusting access to a file based on a detected change in an operating condition of the file. A change in an operating condition can be a trigger event, such that when a change is detected regarding the operating conditions, a policy defined for the file is reviewed and an action as...