ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,951, issued on June 16, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Tiering cloud-based storage data using virtual drive-based systems" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.), Naveen Neelakantam (Mountain View, Calif.), Radek Aster (Campbell, Calif.), Joshua Freilich (Kalaheo, Hawaii) and Aswin Karumbunathan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Leveraging distinct storage tiers in a virtual storage system, including: receiving a request to write data to the virtual storage system; selecting, from amongst a plurality of tiers in the virtual storage system, a tier for receiving the data, wherein the pluralit...