ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,332, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Providing storage services and managing a pool of storage resources" was invented by Robert Lee (San Carlos, Calif.) and Larry Touchette (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing storage services and managing a pool of storage resources, including: receiving, from a plurality of storage consumers, one or more requests for storage services, the one or more requests for storage services including one or more specifications of required storage features; provisioning, for each storage consumer, a first set of storage resources from the poo...