ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,802, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Method for detecting and recovering an inoperable drive" was invented by Shiva Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may recover from a firmware failure that places the storage device in an undetectable state. The storage device includes a memory device to store recovery firmware. A storage device controller includes a failure detector module that may identify the firmware failure when a periodic signal is not received by the failure detector module from a firmware thread, wh...