ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,440, issued on July 7, was assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Client-based name cache handling external to distributed storage system" was invented by G. Paul Koning (New Boston, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Name caching can be used external to a distributed file system (DFS), such as a network file system (NFS), to reduce the complexity of facilitating a file operation at the DFS. A system that can use the name caching and request the file operation of the DFS can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operat...