ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,027, issued on March 3, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Providing emulated access to a remotely managed storage system" was invented by John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.), Benjamin Borowiec (San Jose, Calif.), Joseph S. Hasbani (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Emanuel G. Noik (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums for emulating a local interface to a remotely managed storage system, including: receiving a request for remote access a storage system, wherein access is provided using a user interface ('UI'); identifying, for a user profile, a version of t...