ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,718, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Updating RAID protection based on storage system characteristics" was invented by John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.), John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), Bo Hong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ethan Miller (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and product for flexible RAID layouts in a storage system, including: determining a reliability of an individual storage device of a plurality of storage devices, the individual storage device containing a plurality of portions of a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) stripe in a storage...