ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,632, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Storage cluster utilizing differing load balancers" was invented by Prabhath Sajeepa (Milpitas, Calif.), Daniel Talayco (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qing Yang (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a first storage cluster, the first storage cluster having a first plurality of storage nodes coupled together and a second storage cluster, the second storage cluster having a second plurality of storage nodes coupled together. The system includes an interconnect...