US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Pipeline optimization in low power mode using PMR" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,841, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Pipeline optimization in low power mode using PMR" was invented by Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel), Amir Rozen (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When entering low power mode, any commands that are fetched and waiting to be executed are completed. When the data storage device exits low power mode, new commands are fetched. The completing and fetching takes time. Rather than completing all of the commands, some selected commands can be stored in a persistent memory region (PMR) when entering low p...