US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 17 for "Low power optimization based upon host exit latency" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,720, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Low power optimization based upon host exit latency" was invented by Nissim Elmaleh (Meitar, Israel), Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a tradeoff between the amount of power consumption decreased and the latency needed to return a data storage device back to an operational power mode. When the data storage device receives a wake up indication from a host device, a controller of the data storage device initiates a counter in order to determine a host exit latency. Based on the h...