US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Sept. 9 for "Data reconstruction in a storage network and methods for use therewith" (Illinois, Rhode Island, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,736, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data reconstruction in a storage network and methods for use therewith" was invented by Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago), Vance T. Thornton (Columbus, Ohio), Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.), Ilya Volvovski (Chicago), Dustin M. Hendrickson (Chicago) and John Quigley (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor in a storage network operates by: receiving an access request for a data segment, wherein the data segment is encoded utilizing an error correcting information dispersal algorithm as a set of encoded data slices that are stored in a plurality of stor...