US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on May 27 for "Providing access to a single-ported storage device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,194, issued on May 27, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Providing access to a single-ported storage device" was invented by Peter Kirkpatrick (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enabling communication between multiple storage controllers and a single-ported storage device, including determining, by an arbiter, that a first storage system controller of a plurality of storage system controllers has gained exclusive access to a single-ported storage device having a plurality of lanes; and in response to the determination, enabling communication between the first storage system controller and the st...