US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on June 23 for "Deduplicate office files regardless of historical metadata manipulation by another system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,127, issued on June 23, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Deduplicate office files regardless of historical metadata manipulation by another system" was invented by Stephen Black (Belfast, Great Britain) and Dermot Hardy (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor and a memory. When executed by the processor, the processor is caused to receive a first file including one or more components, parse the first file into a metadata portion and one or more non-metadata portions, generate a manifest for each of the one or more non-metadata portions, generate an output data stream in...