ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,030, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Toggle mode interface for data integrity protection" was invented by Julian Vlaiko (Kfar Saba, Israel), Siddhesh Darne (Milpitas, Calif.), Hanan Borukhov (Rehovot, Israel), Venky Ramachandra (San Jose, Calif.), Grishma Shah (San Jose, Calif.) and Dmitry Vaysman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided, which allow for error detection or data integrity checking during data transfer of write operations and read operations. The controller may be configured to genera...