ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,654, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Not all panic situations in a data storage device necessitate a host device initiated reset. When it is possible for the data storage device to handle a panic event and simply inform the host device that the panic event was avoided, efficiencies are achieved. For multi-tenant situations, the data storage device can track the types of trac...