ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,110, issued on June 24, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Replicating data in a storage system operating in a reduced power mode" was invented by Aaron Dailey (San Jose, Calif.), Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Nicole Tselentis (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Replicating a dataset in a storage system operating in a reduced power mode, including: detecting that the storage system should enter the reduced power mode; entering the reduced power mode; and performing, while in the reduced power mode, one or more data replication operations associated with the dataset, including selecting, from...