US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on Dec. 30 for "Representing storage capacity based on data reduction levels" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,042, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Representing storage capacity based on data reduction levels" was invented by John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adjusting storage capacity in a computing system that includes a computing device configured to send access requests to a storage device characterized by a first storage capacity, including: reducing data; determining, in dependence upon an amount of storage capacity saved by reducing the data, an updated storage capacity for the storage device; and exporting an updated storage capacity to the computing device." ...