US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on March 17 for "Optimizing allocation unit sizes for heterogeneous storage systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,024, issued on March 17, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optimizing allocation unit sizes for heterogeneous storage systems" was invented by Zoltan Dewitt (Daly City, Calif.), Benjamin Scholbrock (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Bernat (Mountain View, Calif.), Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Allocation units having equal allocation unit sizes are formed for writing into erase blocks of a storage system. One or more of the allocation units are formed of at least a portion of two erase blocks. Data is written to the erase blocks forming the allocat...