ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,728, issued on June 17, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Failure detection of power loss protection using light core dump in data storage device" was invented by Aliaksandr Zapatylak (Minsk, Belarus), Aleksei Popov (Minsk, Belarus), Leonid Zaliubovskyi (Minsk, Belarus) and Leanid Kavaliou (Minsk, Belarus).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a power loss protection method. In some implementations, the method includes initiating a timer to indicate a progress of a power loss protection procedure that performs a data transfer upon occurrence of a power loss interrupt event, initiating a first data transfer...