ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,583, issued on July 1, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Replication utilizing cloud-based storage systems" was invented by Aswin Karumbunathan (San Francisco), John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.), Constantine Sapuntzakis (Palo Alto, Calif.), Joshua Freilich (San Francisco), Naveen Neelakantam (Mountain View, Calif.), Sergey Zhuravlev (Bothell, Wash.) and Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronously replicating a dataset across cloud-based storage systems, including adding a cloud-based storage system to a set of storage systems that the dataset is synchronously replicated across, w...