US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on July 8 for "Storing encoded data slices in primary storage slots" (Illinois, Wisconsin, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,287, issued on July 8, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Storing encoded data slices in primary storage slots" was invented by Ravi V. Khadiwala (Bartlett, Ill.), Wesley B. Leggette (Chicago), Andrew D. Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.), Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago), Ilya Volvovski (Chicago), Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.) and Manish Motwani (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for execution by one or more computing devices of a storage network includes dispersed storage error encoding a data segment of data into a set of encoded data slices in accordance with an information dispersal algorithm width number a...