ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,428, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Providing non-volatile storage to cloud computing services" was invented by Emily Potyraj (Houston), Joshua Robinson (Madrid) and Brian Carpenter (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing persistent storage to transient cloud computing services, including: creating a cloud computing instance, wherein the cloud computing instance is created on on-premises cloud infrastructure; and storing, in non-volatile storage in a storage system that is communicatively coupled to the on-premises cloud infrastructure, data associated with the cloud compu...