US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Electrostatic discharge detection and data storage device reaction" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,139, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Electrostatic discharge detection and data storage device reaction" was invented by Shuli Shmaya (Ks, Israel) and Eran Moshe (Kfar Saba, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of allowing an electrostatic discharge (ESD) event to cause a lost clock signal sync due effects of the ESD event causing an SSD to enter low power mode, utilizing ESD detection can be used to stop the reference clock signal to avoid involuntary low power mode. When an ESD event occurs, an ESD antenna sensor will selectivity disable sensitive signals and the reference ...