ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,189, issued on June 17, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Failure recovery using command history buffer in storage device" was invented by Nataniel Peisakhov (Petah Tikva, Israel), Roman Livshits (Hadera, Israel), Natan Tabachnik (Irus, Israel), Moshe Karni (Rehovot, Israel), Maor Katz (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Paz Ben Aharon (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device for providing failure recovery may include a device memory including one or more memories and a command history buffer. The device memory may be configured to receive and process (i) commands directed to the on...