ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,608, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Proactive correction of potential transmission errors in a storage device" was invented by Julian Vlaiko (Kfar Saba, Israel), Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel), Aki Bleyer (Givatayim, Israel), Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of incurring interface errors caused by power drops, continuously track all the channels between the controller and the storage device (both in-band side-band channels). The tracking will include extracting relevant indica...