ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,205, issued on March 18, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Utilizing data transfer estimates for active management of a storage environment" was invented by Emily Potyraj (Houston), Joshua Robinson (Madrid) and Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Utilizing data transfer estimates for active management of a storage environment, including: determining an estimated data transfer time from a source storage environment to a destination storage environment; determining whether the estimated data transfer time exceeds a threshold; and performing, in response to the estimated data transfer t...