ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,624, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Independent communication pathways" was invented by John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.) and John D. Davis (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a plurality of storage units, each having a controller and solid-state storage memory. The storage system further includes one or more first pathways that couple processing devices of a plurality of storage nodes and is configured to couple to a network external to the storage system and one or more second pathway...