ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,463, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Destruction validation system" was invented by John Zevenbergen (Woodway, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This technology relates to a destruction validation system. The destruction validation system includes a destruction device and a controller. The controller is configured to monitor current drawn by the destruction device during destruction of the piece of physical media. The controller may compare the current drawn to a current profile. Based on the comparison of the current drawn to the current profile, the controller may generate and output a notif...