US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on Sept. 30 for "Preserving data in a storage system operating in a reduced power mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,044, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Preserving data in a storage system operating in a reduced power mode" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Peter Kirkpatrick (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Preserving data in a storage system operating in a reduced power mode, including: detecting that the storage system should enter the reduced power mode; and entering the reduced power mode, including performing, while in the reduced power mode, one or more maintenance operations on one or more storage devices in the storage system."

The patent was filed on Oc...