US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 20 for "Locating files using a durable and universal file identifier" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,315, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Locating files using a durable and universal file identifier" was invented by Michael John Novak (Redmond, Wash.), Raju Jain (Kirkland, Wash.), John Heinrich Lueders (Seattle), Robert Paul St. Pierre (Redmond, Wash.) and Calvin Tonini (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Files can be located using a durable and universal file identifier. A content URI includes a file protocol URI specifying a path to a file. The file protocol URI includes a query string specifying properties of the file that can be utilized to locate the file, suc...