ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,264, issued on April 8, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adjusting a variable parameter to increase reliability of stored data" was invented by John D. Davis (San Francisco), John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), Zhangxi Tan (Mountain View, Calif.), Hari Kannan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nenad Miladinovic (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjustable error correction in a storage cluster is provided. The method includes determining health of a non-volatile memory of a non-volatile solid-state storage unit of each of a plurality of storage nodes in a storage cluster on a basis of per fla...