US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Data storage device and method for delaying execution of a host write command to perform an internal memory operation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,053, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for delaying execution of a host write command to perform an internal memory operation" was invented by Amit Sharma (Bangalore, India) and Dinesh Kumar Agarwal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method for delaying execution of a host write command to perform an internal memory operation. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory with single-level cell (SLC) blocks and multi-level cell (MLC) blocks, as well as a controller. The controller is conf...