US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on Jan. 13 for "Intelligently forming data stripes including multiple shards in a single failure domain" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,309, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Intelligently forming data stripes including multiple shards in a single failure domain" was invented by Ethan Miller (Santa Cruz, Calif.), John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.) and Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Redundant array of independent drives (RAID) sub-stripes are formed across one or more solid-state storage devices of storage nodes of a storage system. The RAID sub-stripes include corresponding shards of data to be stored at the solid-state storage devices, wherein at least one of the RAID sub-stripes has at least...