US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Programmable telemetry and alerts for storage devices" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,213, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Programmable telemetry and alerts for storage devices" was invented by Grant Mackey (San Jose, Calif.), Bernd Lamberts (San Jose, Calif.) and Matias Bjorling (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A streaming data interface or a 'telemetry tap' in conjunction with a host defined telemetry program is used to regulate the type and amount of telemetry data sent to the host device. The amount of telemetry data provided to the host is based on a request. The controller will receive and execute valid host generated programs which define whic...