US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 18 for "Data storage device and method for host-controlled data compression" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,204, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for host-controlled data compression" was invented by Prabhakar Ballapalle (Bangalore, India) and ANup Srikanth (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method are disclosed for host-controlled data compression. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and a controller configured to communicate with the memory. The controller is further configured to selectively compress target data, wherein the target data is only compressed in response to receiving ...