ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,432, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Host and dual write method for avoiding data loss when writing to an external data storage device" was invented by Dattatreya B. Nayak (Udupi, India), Narendra Bayanaboina (Mydukur, India), Nagaraj Dandigenahalli Rudrappa (Davangere, India), Silky Mohanty (Bangalore, India) and Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host may not have a large enough internal non-volatile memory to store generated data, such as video. In such situations, the host can store the data in an external data storage device, such as an external...