ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,755, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-array user authorization for cloud-based storage systems" was invented by Jimmy T. Hu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Benjamin Borowiec (San Jose, Calif.), Ethan Miller (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Terence Noonan (Vadnais Heights, Minn.), Constantine Sapuntzakis (Palo Alto, Calif.), Neil Vachharajani (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Daquan Zuo (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array includes: receiving, by a storage array access module from a client-side array services module, ...