US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Capacitor health check for data storage devices" (Arizona, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,850, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Capacitor health check for data storage devices" was invented by Narasimhan Trichy (Plano, Texas) and Andrew Prosory (Queen Creek, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a non-volatile memory device, a capacitor bank, and a power regulator electrically coupled to the capacitor bank and configured to provide power to the non-volatile memory device. The data storage device further includes a controller configured to discharge the capacitor bank from a first voltage to a second voltage at a first constant current and determi...