ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,840, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Producing recovered data in a storage network" was invented by Bruno H. Cabral (Chicago) and Wesley B. Leggette (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage network operates by: issuing read slice requests to storage units of a set of storage units, where the read slice requests identify at least a read threshold number of encoded slices of a set of encoded slices corresponding to a data segment; when less than the read threshold number of encoded slices are received within a time threshold, facilitating receiving a decode threshold number of encoded...