ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,903, issued on March 17, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Providing container-based storage services using virtual storage" was invented by Michael Richardson (Kansas City, Mo.) and Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing scalable and reliable container-based storage services, including: deploying a containerized storage controller on a first node among of plurality of nodes operable to support execution of the containerized storage controller; associating a dataset stored in backing storage accessible by the first node with one or more virtualized volumes presented by the con...