ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,442, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scaling storage resources based on storage volume usage" was invented by Taher Vohra (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Par Botes (Atherton, Calif.), Naveen Neelakantam (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ivan Jibaja (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scaling storage resources in a storage volume, including: monitoring a usage of a volume in a storage pool that includes one or more cloud-based storage systems; determining that the usage of the volume exceeds a threshold usage; and based on the determination, expanding the resources that are included in the stor...