ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,873, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for linking remote file storage" was invented by David Bendert (Charlotte, N.C.), Maximilian Fuchs (Charlotte, N.C.) and Matthew Spain (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for linking remote file storage. An example method includes identifying, by discovery agent circuitry, a set of files for storage from a set of candidate files, and classifying, by file metadata circuitry, each file from the set of files for storage into file usage categories. The e...