ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,214, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Early detection of cloud-based events" was invented by Luis Pablo Pabon (Sturbridge, Mass.), Vishwas Bettigere Prabhakar (Bengaluru, India), Abhay Chavan (Pune, India) and Ganesh Pal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes a cloud services provider system detecting a request to execute an event associated with a service provided by the cloud services provider system; determining that the event will affect a storage system associated with the service; transmitting a notification to the storage system that the even...