ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,043, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Writing data to a solid state storage array to accommodate power failure" was invented by Gordon James Coleman (Los Altos, Calif.) and Eric Seppanen (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage array controller may receive a write request comprising data to be stored at one or more solid-state storage devices. A write granularity associated with the write request may be generated that is less than a logical block size associated with the storage array controller. The data associated with the write request may be segmented based on the...