ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,337, issued on May 19, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Storage network with audit records aggregation and methods for use therewith" was invented by Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.) and Wesley B. Leggette (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage network operates by: obtaining audit records, wherein each of the audit records indicates: a timestamp for a corresponding message, at least one event type code selected from a plurality of event type codes for a corresponding audit event of the corresponding message, and an identifier for a corresponding system entity associated with at least one event corresp...