Pure Storage Assigned Patent

Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,213,485) developed by Hayes, John, Colgrove, John, and Davis, John D., Mountain View, CA, for a “storage system architecture.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a plurality of storage units, each of the plurality of storage units having storage memory for user data and a plurality of storage nodes, each of the plurality of storage nodes configured to have ownership of a portion of the user data. The storage system includes a first pathway, coupling the plurality of storage units such that each of the plurality of storage units can communicate with at least one other of the plurality of storage units via the first pathway without assistance from the plurality of storage nodes.“

The patent application was filed on February 10, 2015 (14/618,999).