ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,934, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cloud-based storage management of a remote storage system" was invented by Shiva Ankam (Sammamish, Wash.), Yu Tan (Sammamish, Wash.), Hongkai Wu (Kirkland, Wash.), Ziyuan Song (Issaquah, Wash.), Divya Marlapalle (San Jose, Calif.), Samridh Srinath (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Miranda Steele (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secure cloud-based storage system management that includes: extending a cloud-based storage management session by using cloud-based user credentials to securely manage a remote storage system, and executing, on the remote storag...