ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,808, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for providing external-interrupt-based customized behavior" was invented by Lovish Singla (Bangalore, India), Shaheed Nehal A (Ludhiana, India) and Lovleen Arora (Mysore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method are disclosed for providing external-interrupt-based customized behavior. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and a controller configured to communicate with the memory. The controller is further configured to: receive an interrupt from a host ind...