ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,599, issued on March 24, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Resource-sensitive scheduling of time-independent operations" was invented by Yuval Frandzel (Foster City, Calif.) and Kiron Vijayasankar (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ensuring the appropriate utilization of system resources using weighted workload based, time-independent scheduling, including: receiving an I/O request associated with an entity; determining whether an amount of system resources required to service the I/O request is greater than an amount of available system resources in a storage system; responsive to determining ...