ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,366, issued on July 7, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Recovering data from de-sequenced encoded data slices" was invented by S. Christopher Gladwin (Chicago), Chuck Wilson Templeton (Chicago), Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.) and Gary W. Grube (Barrington Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for execution by one or more computing devices of a storage network, the method includes de-selecting a sequence of input encoded data slices based on de-selection information to produce deselected encoded data slices of a set of encoded data slices, where the input encoded data slices include a set of encod...