ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,210, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for read disturb mitigation during low-power modes" was invented by Pawan Kumar Negi (Bengaluru, India), Meer Afroz Mohammed (Bengaluru, India) and Bhavadip Bipinbhai Solanki (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device can check data integrity on a wordline in memory each time the data storage device exits a low-power mode. Frequent exits from the low-power mode result in the wordline being read many times, which can result in a read disturb problem. To mitigate this problem, in one embodime...