ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,854, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Two or more logical arrays having zoned drives" was invented by Par Anders Botes (Atherton, Calif.) and Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of storage nodes is provided. The plurality of storage nodes includes a first plurality of storage nodes configured to communicate together as a first storage cluster and a second plurality of storage nodes configured to communicate together as a second storage cluster. Each of the first and second pluralities of storage nodes has nonvolatile solid-state memory for user data stora...