US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 11 for "Transfer of internal device data over command response" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,704, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Transfer of internal device data over command response" was invented by Eyal Hamo (Naharia, Israel), Sagi Taragan (Ramat Ishay, Israel) and Voltaire Essa (Jish, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device comprising a non-volatile storage medium configured to store data, a data port configured to receive and transmit data between a host computer system and the data storage device and a controller. The controller is configured to receive, via the data port, a first command data structure comprising a status reporting activation and...