ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,948, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamically adjusting storage resources in a vast storage network" was invented by Wesley B. Leggette (Chicago) and Bart R. Cilfone (Marina del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method begins by determining storage performance for a set of storage resources of the storage network, where data is error encoded into pluralities of sets of encoded data slices in accordance with error encoding parameters, and, for a set of encoded data slices, the error encoding parameters include a decode threshold number and a pillar width threshold number. The ...