ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,178, issued on July 22, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Converting storage resources to distributed persistent storage for containerized applications" was invented by Prabir Paul (San Jose, Calif.), Lakshmi Narasimhan Sundararajan (Tamil Nadu, India), Nikhil Subhash Bhupale (Maharashtra, India), Vinod Jayaraman (San Francisco) and Goutham Rao (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative storage system provides distributed storage for use by containerized applications running in a container system. In some implementations, this includes converting data blocks of storage resources to...