US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 13 for "Maintenance of access for security enablement in a storage device" (Arizona, New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,185, issued on May 13, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Maintenance of access for security enablement in a storage device" was invented by Roger G. Hathorn (Tucson, Ariz.), Patricia G. Driever (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), John Flanagan (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Christopher J. Colonna (Ossining, N.Y.) and Evan Rivera (Carmel, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage port receives a login request. The storage port configures an audit mode indicator as enabled in a login response to a host port to enter a security enabled mode to indicate to the host port that Input/Output (I/O) operations are to be transm...