ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,068, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Calculating storage consumption in a storage-as-a-service model" was invented by Cary Sandvig (Isle La Motte, Vt.), Jianting Cao (Mountain View, Calif.), Martin Harriman (Aptos, Calif.) and John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Calculating storage consumption in a storage-as-a-service model, including: identifying a data object stored in a pool of storage resources, wherein the pool of storage resources are accessible by a plurality of entities and the data object occupies an amount of storage capacity within the pool of stora...