ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,841, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Preference based selection of storage network memory for data storage" was invented by S. Christopher Gladwin (Chicago), Timothy W. Markison (Mesa, Ariz.), Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago), Thomas F. Shirley Jr. (Oconomowoc, Wis.), Wesley B. Leggette (Chicago), Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.) and Gary W. Grube (Barrington Hills, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for preference based selection of storage network memory for data storage. In an example, a computing device receives a data object for storage in memory of the storage network and d...