US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on March 25 for "Mitigating data loss in a storage network" (Rhode Island, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,990, issued on March 25, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Mitigating data loss in a storage network" was invented by Teague S. Algie (Chicago) and Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for execution by a storage network starts by maintaining loading and data access rate information for a storage node and estimating a future data access rate for the storage node. The method continues by determining a probability level of potential future data loss, based on the estimated future data access rate and in response to a determination that the probability level of potential future da...