US Patent Issued to Nutanix on July 21 for "Consistent access control lists across file servers for local users in a distributed file server environment" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,312, issued on July 21, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Consistent access control lists across file servers for local users in a distributed file server environment" was invented by Hemantha Kumar Thummala (San Jose, Calif.), Manoj Premanand Naik (San Jose, Calif.), Saji Kumar Vijaya Kumari Rajendran Nair (San Jose, Calif.) and Srikrishan Malik (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein are generally directed towards file server access controls, and more specifically towards a mechanism to create consistent access control lists for local users across different file servers in a distributed...