ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,149, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"SSD power management with hybrid PCIe link state method" was invented by Julian Vlaiko (Kfar Saba, Israel), Dmitry Vaysman (San Jose, Calif.), Roni Ankonina (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nissim Elmaleh (Meitar, Israel) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express (PCIe) link speed modulation and the PCIe link power state being utilized separately, the PCIe link speed modulation and PCIe link power state strategies are used in combination. The combination balances between the...