ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,300, issued on May 19, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optimizing virtual storage system architectures" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kiron Vijayasankar (Los Altos, Calif.), Andrew Kleinerman (San Carlos, Calif.) and Joshua Freilich (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing virtual storage systems, the method comprising creating a virtual storage system, the virtual storage system including a virtual drive layer that includes a plurality of virtual drives and virtual drive logic configured to manage processing of I/O operations in the virtual storage system; and a backe...