ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,364, issued on July 8, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Providing block-based storage" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kiron Vijayasankar (Los Altos, Calif.), Andrew Kleinerman (San Carlos, Calif.) and Joshua Freilich (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing block-based storage is described. The method comprises: creating a virtual storage system for storing a dataset, the virtual storage system including a virtual drive layer that includes a plurality of virtual drives for storing at least a portion of the dataset as block data; and a block storage backend layer for...