ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,972, issued on July 22, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Allocation of differing erase block sizes" was invented by Andrew R. Bernat (Mountain View, Calif.), Timothy W. Brennan (San Francisco), Mark L. McAuliffe (San Francisco) and Neil Buda Vachharajani (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rebuilding data when changing erase block sizes in a storage system is provided. The method includes determining one or more erase blocks to be rebuilt and allocating one or more replacement erase blocks, wherein the one or more erase blocks and the one or more replacement erase blocks have diffe...