US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 24 for "Location-based maintenance operations for a data storage device" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,531, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Location-based maintenance operations for a data storage device" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India), Niles Yang (Mountain View, Calif.), Daniel J. Linnen (Limestone, Tenn.) and Kirubakaran Periyannan (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance system of a data storage device identifies which portions of the data storage device are more susceptible to data retention failures and other issues when compared with other portions of the data storage device. Various portions of the data storage device are identified...