ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,738, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic data storage based on estimated update frequency" was invented by Ilya Volvovski (Chicago), Wesley B. Leggette (Chicago), Michael C. Storm (Palo Alto, Calif.) 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 computing device to adjust efficiency of storing data in a storage network includes processing a data segment based on a storage approach to produce a processed data segment, where the storage approach is based on an estimated update frequency for the data segment. The method continues by storing t...