US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Sept. 22 for "Techniques to monitor for circular links in file systems" (Czech, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,398, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Techniques to monitor for circular links in file systems" was invented by Paolo Antinori (Milan) and Tomas Meszaros (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modification to a filesystem may be identified. It may be determined that the modification to the file system corresponds to a link in the filesystem. A processing device may update a current graph representation of links in the filesystem to produce an updated graph representation of links in the filesystem including the link that corresponds to the modification to the filesystem based on dete...