US Patent Issued to Korea University Research and Business Foundation on March 25 for "Method for discarding personal information in nand flash memory" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,108, issued on March 25, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for discarding personal information in nand flash memory" was invented by Dong Hoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Na Young Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for discarding personal information comprises at least one among partial overwriting, SLC programming, and applying an erase pulse. The method for discarding personal information comprises a step for acquiring the program status of personal information-containing data of a memory block to be erased, generating data having a status ...