ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,201, issued on July 1, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient redundant array of independent disks (RAID) stripe parity calculations" was invented by Constantine Sapuntzakis (Palo Alto, Calif.), Marco Sanvido (Belmont, Calif.) and Timothy Brennan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performing partial redundant array of independent disks (RAID) stripe parity calculations, including: receiving a last portion of a RAID stripe among multiple portions of the RAID stripe, all portions for a successful write of the RAID stripe being previously received except for the last portion; calculating a parity v...