ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,374, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Storage power reduction in battery-operated devices" was invented by Amit Sharma (Bangalore, India), Dinesh Kumar Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Abhinandan Venugopal (Mysore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for optimizing the power consumption of a data storage device included in a battery-operated device. The battery-operated device (e.g., portable devices like wearable devices, smartwatches, and mobile phones) can access certain data stored on the data storage device more frequently when the device operates on...