US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on July 22 for "Secure erase of user data using storage regions" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,300, issued on July 22, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Secure erase of user data using storage regions" was invented by John W. Nicholson (Cary, N.C.), Daryl C. Cromer (Raleigh, N.C.), Howard Locker (Cary, N.C.) and Mengnan Wang (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed to securely erase user data using storage regions on a shared computing device. Memory stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable to configure a nonvolatile storage device of a shared device that may be used by multiple users but is exclusively us...