US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on March 17 for "Partitioning data into chunk groupings for use in a dispersed storage network" (Rhode Island, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,032, issued on March 17, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Partitioning data into chunk groupings for use in a dispersed storage network" was invented by Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago) and Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device for use in a storage network includes one or more network interfaces, memory with operational instructions and a processing module. The processing module is configured to execute the operational instructions receive a storage request for data and select a plurality of memory devices for storage of the data. The processing module partitions the data int...