US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on June 24 for "Information processing apparatus, authenticity verification method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,946, issued on June 24, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, authenticity verification method, and program" was invented by Yuki Kotake (Tokyo) and Yukiyoshi Takamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Whether a connected drive is an unauthorized drive or not can be judged before it becomes possible for the connected drive to access a memory for a storage controller. When a storage device is connected, an information processing apparatus forms a first communication channel via a first interface incapable of accessing a built-in memory even when the communication connection is e...