ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,584, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Egnyte Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and methods for generating sparse tree for presenting and navigating through hierarchical files" was invented by Shishir Sharma (Mountain View, Calif.), Tomasz Kaczmarek (Poznan, Poland), Lukasz Rek (Mountain View, Calif.) and Krzysztof Zmudzinski (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for generating a sparse tree view for presenting and assisting a user to conduct searches and navigate through a hierarchical file system more efficiently. A sparse tree assists a user to navigate through search or filte...