ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,345, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device configured for use with a generative-adversarial-network (GAN)" was invented by Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel), Daniel Joseph Linnen (Limestone, Tenn.) and William Bernard Boyle (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data storage devices configured to exploit generative-adversarial-networks (GANs). The GANs include super-resolution GANs (SRGANS). In some examples, a GAN-based decoding reconstruction procedure is implemented within a data storage co...