US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 22 for "Retrimming removable storage device using host system" (Washington, New Mexico, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,957, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Retrimming removable storage device using host system" was invented by Eran Erez (Bothell, Wash.), Joseph R. Meza (Bernallio, N.M.) and Dylan B. Fairchild (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host system includes an interface for coupling the host system to a data storage device. The host system also includes one or more processors, and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The one or more programs include instructions for: determining if a retrim is needed for the data storage device; a...