ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,624, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Managing data storage device functionality based on a determined write abort probability" was invented by Bishwajit Dutta (Bangalore, India) and Narendhiran Cr (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a write abort prediction system that monitors a number of write aborts that occur over a monitoring period. The write abort prediction system uses the monitored number of write aborts to predict or determine a probability regarding whether one or more write aborts will occur over another monitoring period. If the p...