US Patent Issued to OnData on Nov. 3 for "Managing access to digital files in a computing environment" (Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,176, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OnData Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Managing access to digital files in a computing environment" was invented by Shaofei Chen (Austin, Texas) and Daniel Cole Harrell (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing access to digital files in a computing environment, including facilitating protection of digital files; including facilitating the user experience for authentication, file encryption, file decryption, dynamic read access of protected files, dynamic write access of protected files, file cache management, and logging of access and updates to the protected files."

The patent wa...