ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,662, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Data storage device and method for enhancing fault tolerance" was invented by Amit Sharma (Bangalore, India), Dinesh Kumar Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method for enhancing fault tolerance are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is provided that is performed in a host in communication with first and second data storage devices. The method comprises: determining whether a condition under which primary and secondary copies of data are to be written to the fir...