US Patent Issued to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 4 for "SSD auxiliary battery power for handling ungraceful shutdown with host" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,920, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"SSD auxiliary battery power for handling ungraceful shutdown with host" was invented by Nian Yang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a storage device, a host device, and a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) system including multiple storage devices and the host device are provided that provide power control and power loss handling. The host device and the storage devices in the RAID system may each include at least a memory, a controller coupled to the memory, and a power ma...