ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,172, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Operating in a write through mode transition while maintaining data integrity after an abrupt shutdown on a storage device" was invented by Ji-Hyun In (Saratoga, Calif.), Dhanunjaya Rao Gorrle (San Jose, Calif.), Thomas Ta (Saratoga, Calif.), Xiaoying Li (Fremont, Calif.) and Aajna Karki (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may transition from operating in a write-back mode to a write-through mode and may use a transition mode to maintain data integrity on a boot-up. The storage device includes a volatile memory to st...