US Patent Issued to BLANCCO TECHNOLOGY GROUP IP on Aug. 12 for "System and method for repurposing or disposing of an IT asset" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,527, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BLANCCO TECHNOLOGY GROUP IP OY (Joensuu, Finland).

"System and method for repurposing or disposing of an IT asset" was invented by Daniel Oberg (Joensuu, Finland), Tom Reid (Joensuu, Finland), Vaino Leppanen (Joensuu, Finland) and Irina Pirogova (Joensuu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in repurposing, erasing data from, and/or disposing of an IT asset comprises transmitting a signal, for example an erasure target signal, from the IT asset to a server located remotely from the IT asset, receiving at the server at least part of a profile of the IT asset, and in response t...