US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on March 3 for "Retention policy-based protection of data written to a data store" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,869, issued on March 3, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Retention policy-based protection of data written to a data store" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Glen Kerr (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes determining that a first data instance stored within a first data store is replicated as a second data instance stored within a second data store, determining that a second retention policy associated with the second data instance stored within the second data store is at least as stringent as a first retention policy associated with the first...