US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Dec. 23 for "Prioritizing storage units for data retrieval operations" (Rhode Island, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,017, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Prioritizing storage units for data retrieval operations" was invented by Andrew G. Peake (Chicago) and Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for use in a storage network to prioritize storage units for data retrieval operations. In various examples, a device obtains resource utilization information and pending resource demand information for a plurality of storage units of a storage network. The device further groups, based on the resource utilization information, the storage units into an underutilized resour...