ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,126, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Automated backups in a distributed storage system" was invented by Prashanth Kumar Nanjundappa (Karnataka, India), Lalatendu Das (Bangalore, India), Prabhudev Avarasang (Karnataka, India), Paul Theunis (Elk Grove, Calif.) and Luis Pablo Pabon (Sturbridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for automated backups in a distributed storage system comprises accessing, by a storage controller of a storage system, a user-defined set of criteria indicating a criticality of data stored by the storage system; detecting, by the storage controll...