ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,379, issued on March 11, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Using mirrored copies for data availability" was invented by Mark McAuliffe (San Francisco), Neil Vachharajani (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Farhan Abrol (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ensuring resiliency to storage device failures in a storage system, including: determining a number of storage device failures within a particular write group that are to be tolerated by the storage system; for a plurality of datasets stored within the storage system, writing each dataset to at least a predetermined number of storage devices within the part...