US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on April 7 for "Maintaining availability of critical information in a distributed storage network" (Illinois, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,598, issued on April 7, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Maintaining availability of critical information in a distributed storage network" was invented by Thomas D. Cocagne (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), Asimuddin Kazi (Naperville, Ill.) and Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for maintaining availability of critical information in a storage network that includes a plurality of storage units. In an embodiment, a processing module(s) of the storage network identifies critical information stored in one or more memory devices of a computing device. Critical information...