ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,405, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application-aware management of a storage system" was invented by Andrew Sillifant (Nottingham, Great Britain), Bikash Roy Choudhury (Milpitas, Calif.) and Mandeep Arora (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Illustrative systems and methods provide application-aware management of storage systems, including application-aware orchestration of operations of storage systems by way of a telemetry-based orchestration pipeline. In certain examples, a remote management system receives, by way of a connection initiated by a storage device connected to...