ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,621, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Enhanced end to end protection in key value storage devices" was invented by Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel), David Avraham (Even Yehuda, Israel) and Ran Zamir (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Key value (KV) pair data includes a key and a value, where the key addresses the value. The value may include one or more flash management units (FMUs). Because the value is read in order, sequentially from one FMU to a next FMU, end-to-end (E2E) protection of the value may be optimized and improved. E2E protection may including using checks...