ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,249, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Remedial actions for a storage system based on similar block detection process anomalies" was invented by Ajay D'Souza (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sandeep Phadke (Saratoga, Calif.) and Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes determining a first value for the metric, the first value associated with a first time period having a particular characteristic; determining a second value for the metric, the second value associated with a second time period having the particular characteristic; and determining that...