ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,655, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Host controlled mitigation of panic situation" was invented by Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel), Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By detecting panic situations and providing a host device detailed panic data and mitigation options before the panic situation condition occurs, failure of data storage devices may be reduced. Several mitigation options may be presented to the host device upon detection of a future panic situation, such as adjusting read...