ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,396, issued on July 29, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Ensuring the resiliency of redundancy data in a cloud-based storage system" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data resiliency in a cloud-based storage system, including: receiving, for storage within a first tier of cloud storage of the cloud-based storage system, one or more segments of data; generating, for each of one or more shards of data of the one or more segments of data, self-describing information for recoverability of the one or more shards of data; and storing, within a second tier of cloud storage...