Formation Data Systems, Inc., Fremont, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,489,137) developed by Lewis, Mark S., Pleasanton, CA, Rao, Vinay P., and Povzner, Anna, San Jose, CA, for a "dynamic storage tiering based on performance SLAs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Data objects are stored [...]