ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,768, issued on May 12, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Promoting a previous version to roll back a data object" was invented by Andrew Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.), Wesley Leggette (Chicago), Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.), Manish Motwani (Chicago) and John Quigley (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for execution by one or more computing devices of a storage network includes determining an error condition associated with storage of a current version of a data object that is stored in a set of storage units of the storage network and is stored as a previous version of the data object. The method ...