ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,397, issued on March 31, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Constructing virtual storage systems from a variety of components" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Par Botes (Atherton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Replication between virtual storage systems includes: constructing a virtual storage system in which the one or more virtual storage devices are coupled to each of one or more virtual storage controllers and replicating a dataset from the virtual storage system to another virtual storage system, where at least one of the virtual storage systems is an on-premises virtual storag...