US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Feb. 4 for "Online resize of a volume of a distributed storage system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,615, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Online resize of a volume of a distributed storage system" was invented by Prabir Paul (San Jose, Calif.), Lakshmi Narasimhan Sundararajan (Tamil Nadu, India), Nikhil Subhash Bhupale (Maharashtra, India), Vinod Jayaraman (San Francisco) and Goutham Rao (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative distributed storage system detects a request to resize an online volume that provides persistent storage for a containerized application running in a container system, wherein the online volume is backed by a virtual block device create...