ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,510, issued on March 24, was assigned to ROCKET SOFTWARE CANADA INC. (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for managed data transfer" was invented by Jonathan Carroll (Beaconsfield, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managed file transfer. A managed file transfer server may receive a request from a sender to send a file (bulk data) to a recipient and may determine a location server that is closest to the location of the recipient. A server-to-server transfer can be automatically initiated to move the file to the location server that is closest to the location of the recipient."

The patent was filed...