US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 27 for "Security technique for digital data on digital storage medium" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,341, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Security technique for digital data on digital storage medium" was invented by Jennifer I. Bennett (Rochester, Minn.), William J Green (Cary, N.C.), Jeremy Miner (Cary, N.C.) and Carolina Garcia Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital data stored on a data storage device is secured by rendering the data storage device inoperable. An insulating tab can be coupled to a battery where the insulating tab is positioned between an electric output for the battery and a power circuit for the data storage device. The insulatin...