ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,635, issued on May 12, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Maintaining virtual address range assignments for a vast storage system" was invented by Manish Motwani (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for execution by a processing module of a computing device of a storage network includes tracking virtual address range assignments of a virtual address range for a plurality of memories of the storage network, where data objects are dispersed storage error encoded into pluralities of sets of encoded data slices, and encoded data slices of the pluralities of sets of encoded data slices are stored in the p...