ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,824, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Maintaining encryption during storage system replication" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.), Constantine Sapuntzakis (Palo Alto, Calif.) and John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Creating a replica of a storage system, including: receiving, by a first storage system from a computing device, data to be stored on the first storage system; reducing, by the first storage system, the data using one or more data reduction techniques; sending, from the first storage system to the second storage system, the reduced data, ...