US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 29 for "Adaptive use of multiple channels in a storage device" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,121, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Adaptive use of multiple channels in a storage device" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel), Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "More efficient memory device usage is possible by altering the memory device management. For example, when the full storage capacity of the memory device will not be used, certain portions of the memory device can be shut off and then turned on when the storage capacity is needed. When less capacity is needed, dat...