ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,864, issued on April 14, was assigned to Egnyte Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for uploading streamed objects to a cloud storage system" was invented by Sachin Shetty (Mumbai, India), Amrit Jassal (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Shishir Sharma (Mountain View, Calif.), Yogesh Rai (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Manoj Chauhan (Cupertino, Calif.), Leszek Jakubowski (Poznan, Poland) and Krishanu Lahiri (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods in a cloud object store facilitate strong data encryption, customer-management of object (encryption) keys, reductions in latency, globally-distributed object storage, and handling ...