Patents by Inventor James Bernat

James Bernat has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Optimizing dynamic power loss protection adjustment in a storage system
    Patent number: 12001684
    Abstract: A first amount of energy to be stored at one or more power loss protection (PLP) components is determined to enable storage of data at a plurality of storage devices of a storage system upon an occurrence of a power failure. A first voltage is provided to the one or more PLP components that corresponds to the first amount of energy. A second amount of energy to be stored at the one or more PLP components is determined based on a change in the storage system. A second voltage is provided to the one or more PLP components that corresponds to the second amount of energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Gordon James Coleman, Andrew R. Bernat, Peter E. Kirkpatrick, Mark L. McAuliffe, Eric Kelly Blanchard, Benjamin Scholbrock, Zoltan DeWitt
  • Performance Improvement For Storage Devices
    Publication number: 20240168837
    Abstract: Improving storage device performance including initiating, on a storage device, execution of a rehabilitative action from a set of rehabilitative actions that can be performed on the storage device; determining that the storage device is operating outside of a defined range of expected operating parameters after the rehabilitative action has been executed; and initiating execution of a higher level rehabilitative action responsive to determining that the higher level rehabilitative action exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: ANDREW BERNAT, JAMES CIHLA, JUNGKEUN KIM, IRIS MCLEARY, DAMIAN YURZOLA
  • Addressing storage device performance
    Patent number: 11914455
    Abstract: Improving storage device performance including initiating, on a storage device, execution of a rehabilitative action from a set of rehabilitative actions that can be performed on the storage device; determining that the storage device is operating outside of a defined range of expected operating parameters after the rehabilitative action has been executed; and initiating execution of a higher level rehabilitative action responsive to determining that the higher level rehabilitative action exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Bernat, James Cihla, Jungkeun Kim, Iris Mcleary, Damian Yurzola
  • Puzzle with pieces having contrasting surfaces in relatively movable track segments
    Patent number: 4832343
    Abstract: A game assembly in the form of a puzzle comprising a plurality of pieces disconnected from one another but successively positioned and collectively movable along the length of a track structure. Opposite exposed surfaces of the pieces are contrastingly designated such as by different colors or the like and wherein the pieces may be selectively positionable into a predetermined array, for purposes of solving the puzzle, by temporarily disconnecting segments of the track structure along with the pieces thereon and repositioning the track segments into a different operable position from an original operable position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Inventor: James Bernat