US Patent Issued to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 21 for "Optimized handling of high current consumption during an open block read" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,986, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Optimized handling of high current consumption during an open block read" was invented by Adam Jacobvitz (Mountain View, Calif.), Piyush Dhotre (San Jose, Calif.), Niles Yang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Brandon Jensen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device manages the effects of read operations on the power consumption on the storage device. A controller on the storage device determines the openness of blocks on a memory device. The controller may execute a first protocol and/or a second protocol. In executing the first p...