ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,353, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Storage system with distributed deletion" was invented by Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.), Igor Ostrovsky (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of distributed file deletion, performed by a storage system, is provided. The method includes receiving, at the storage system, a request to delete a directory and contents of the directory and adding the directory to a first set, listed in a memory in the storage system. The method includes operating on the first set, by examining each directory in ...