US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 15 for "Optimized power up in storage memory devices" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,687, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Optimized power up in storage memory devices" was invented by Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel), Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rather than using low power mode since there is no indication of a sleep mode type to the data storage device, the sleep mode type is inferred by the data storage device, or supplied by the host. In so doing, the sleep type communication is improved. After the system returns power to the data storage device, there may be a...