ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,206, issued on March 18, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Non-disruptively moving a storage fleet control plane" was invented by Prakash Darji (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lawrence Mertes (San Jose, Calif.) and Taher Vohra (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Non-disruptively moving a storage fleet control plane, including deploying, on an edge device, one or more agents that are managed by a control plane residing in a cloud computing environment; mediating one or more API requests, generated by the control plane, directed to the one or more agents on the edge device; and migrating, in response to a ...