ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,779, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and computer-readable media to back-up parity information" was invented by Dattatreya B Nayak (Udupi, India) and Vinod Sasidharan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a data storage device that backs-up parity information. The data storage device includes a memory and a data storage device controller coupled to the memory and including a storage sub-system and a security sub-system. The storage sub-system includes parity information within a second memory. The data storage device fu...