US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on July 14 for "Selectable low power mode for storage devices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,556, issued on July 14, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Selectable low power mode for storage devices" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India), Taninder Singh Sijher (Bangalore, India) and Anil Kumar Toranagallu (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external data storage device, without a battery, provides a user-selectable low power mode. The external data storage device includes storage media for storing data and a data port for receiving power and transmitting data to a host device. The external storage data device includes control circuitry configured to negotiate...