US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Storage devices having multi-channel capacitive sensors for detecting gesture based commands" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,448, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Storage devices having multi-channel capacitive sensors for detecting gesture based commands" was invented by Sudhan Immanuel Godwin (Bangalore, India) and Anil Kumar Kolar Narayanappa (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing multi-channel capacitive sensors for detecting user gestures. In certain embodiments, a data storage device includes a non-volatile memory; a plurality of metal pieces configured to form one or more heat sinks of the data storage device and to form a plurality of capaciti...