US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Data storage device and method for bypassing a read-only mode to allow user data backup" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,531, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for bypassing a read-only mode to allow user data backup" was invented by Evgeny Mekhanik (Rehovot, Israel), Meytal Soffer (Kibbutz Yechiam, Israel), Yair Sommer (Kibbutz Yechiam, Israel) and Noam Even-Chen (Kibbutz Saad, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method are disclosed for bypassing a read-only mode to allow user data backup. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and one or more processors. The one or more processors, individually or in combination,...