ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,421, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for flexible emergency power fail management for multiple persistent memory regions" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel), Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for flexible emergency power fail management for multiple persistent memory regions. In one embodiment, a method is provided that is performed in a host in communication with a plurality of data storage devices, each data stora...