US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 18 for "Data storage device and method for responding to a host-specified parameter of an upcoming burst mode" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,940, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for responding to a host-specified parameter of an upcoming burst mode" was invented by Ronak Jain (Karnataka, India), Rohit Prasad (Karnataka, India) and Ramanathan Muthiah (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method for host-determined proactive block clearance are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a command from a host that specifies a parameter of an upcoming burst mode...