ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,210, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device that detects and releases bottlenecks in hardware" was invented by Refael Ben-Rubi (Rosh Haayln, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a read command to read data from the memory device or a write command to write data to the memory device from a host device, determine whether a bottleneck exists in a data/control path between the host device and the memory device, wherein the bottleneck exists ...