ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,973, issued on July 21, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reconfigurable storage system" was invented by John Davis (San Francisco) and Robert Lee (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments provide for a method and system for dynamic configuration of a storage system to facilitate independent scaling of resources. The method and system include detecting a change to a topology of a storage system consisting of different sets of storage nodes, where at least one of the different sets of storage nodes has solid-state memory having differing storage capacities. Responsive to detecting the chang...