US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 21 for "Host independent control of storage devices using control devices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,988, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Host independent control of storage devices using control devices" was invented by Mahipal Reddy Ankilla (Warangal, India) and Shubhi Khanna (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device can include a non-volatile memory, a sensor configured to detect an input from a control device, and control circuitry configured to: receive commands from one or more hosts or one or more control devices; detect an input from a control device using the sensor; determine whether the data storage device is connected to a host; in response to ...