ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,909, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"SSD with reference clock loss tolerant oscillator" was invented by Nitin Gupta (Uttar Pradesh, India), Pikul Sarkar (Karnataka, India) and Bhavin Odedara (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a storage device are provided for producing an oscillator clock from a host reference clock in a storage device lacking a crystal oscillator. The storage device includes a memory die, and an oscillator circuit that generates a clock based on a host reference clock and outputs an output clock to the memory die. While the host reference c...