ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,183, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for executing a low-priority speculative read command from a host" was invented by Abhinandan Venugopal (Bangalore, India), Amit Sharma (Bengaluru, India) and Anindita Chakrabarty (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device receives a speculative read command from a host identifying logical block addresses. The speculative read command is not required be to executed within a certain amount of time or even at all. The data storage device at least partially executes the speculative read comman...