ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,287, issued on April 14, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Storage system utilizing independent erasure codes" was invented by John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.), Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.), Igor Ostrovsky (Mountain View, Calif.) and Joshua Robinson (Madrid).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for proactively rebuilding user data in a plurality of storage nodes of a storage cluster is provided. The method includes distributing user data and metadata throughout the plurality of storage nodes such that the plurality of storage nodes can read the user data, using erasure ...