US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Multiple command format interpretation for SSD" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,077, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Multiple command format interpretation for SSD" was invented by Amit Alon (Mishmeret Village, Israel), Moshe Karni (Rehovoth, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In addition to transmitting over the ASIC-NAND bus the legacy long command format, a data storage device will be able to use also a compressed/improved command format. The alternate command's format is hidden from most parts of the NAND. The NAND can have a layer that will translate compressed/non standard commands to the legacy (standard) format f...