US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Data storage device and method for host-managed data integrity" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,854, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for host-managed data integrity" was invented by Niles Yang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive, from a host, a command to read data from the memory, wherein the command comprises a data integrity level threshold; read the data from the memory; determine a data integrity level of the data; in response to the data integrity leve...