ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,721, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Data storage device and method for performing error recovery" was invented by Fu-Jen Shih (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes at least one signal processing circuit to perform an error recovery procedure when an error has occurred in the data storage device. When performing the error recovery procedure, the signal processing circuit determines which type of line reset is to be performed according to a device identifier. When the device identifier satisfies a predetermined condition, the signal processin...