ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,322, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Intelligent namespace utilization for storage system configuration" was invented by Andrew Bernat (Mountain View, Calif.) and Guillaume Girard (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first namespace is generated on a particular storage device of the plurality of storage devices for storing configuration data for a storage system. The first namespace is accessible by one or more storage controllers of the storage system. A second namespace is generated on the particular storage device for storing other data at the particular storage device. The configur...