ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,518, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optimizing availability of mediator services for storage systems" was invented by David Grunwald (San Francisco), Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Thomas Gill (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system switching mediators within a storage system synchronously replicating data, where the switching between mediators includes determining that availability of a first mediator service has decreased to a particular level, wherein the first mediator service can provide mediation services at the particular level to a plur...