ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,062, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Managing permissions for processing input/output (I/O) operations in a storage system" was invented by Sandeep Mann (Pleasanton, Calif.), John Adler (Mountain View, Calif.), Jaesoo Lee (Los Altos, Calif.), Benjamin Scholbrock (San Jose, Calif.) and Andrew Bernat (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing permissions for processing input/output (I/O) operations in a storage system is disclosed that includes a plurality of storage system controllers and a plurality of storage device...