ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,856, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Storage system with multiple write paths" was invented by Ying Gao (San Jose, Calif.), Boris Feigin (San Francisco), Hari Kannan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Igor Ostrovsky (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jeffrey Tofano (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system has a first memory, and a second memory that includes storage memory. The storage system has a processing device. The processing device is to select whether to write data to the first memory and write the data from the first memory to the second memory, or to write the data to the se...