ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,139, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TP-Link Systems Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method, device and computer program product for managing metadata of file system" was invented by Kun Zhang (Shanghai), Ziqian Liu (Shanghai) and Mingyi Cong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method, device and a computer program product for managing metadata of a file system. The method may include: determining a data structure of the metadata based on a type of the file system; deriving a reference value for a first field of the metadata based on the data structure of the metadata and a protocol of the file system; and ...