ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,037, issued on June 10.
"Quick factory reset application" was invented by Leo Now (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Craig Dong (Clayton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-enabled method of deleting data of a user on one or more electronic devices of the type having a processor, a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, a display, and a user interface, includes the steps of A) providing a software application resident in the non-volatile memory of the electronic device, B) running the software application so that the software application is in a standby mode, C) checking a remote reset flag, and D) in an emergency situ...