US Patent Issued to N.F. Smith & Associates on Sept. 23 for "System and method for performing and verifying data erasure" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,017, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to N.F. Smith & Associates LP (Houston).

"System and method for performing and verifying data erasure" was invented by Phyllis Tsu (Houston), Michael Mercado (Cypress, Texas), David Smith (La Porte, Texas), Jianning Yue (Houston) and Samuel Hinkhouse (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, at a computing device, inventory data identifying a plurality of computer readable storage devices. The method further includes receiving, at the computing device, a first request to perform a memory management operation. The method further includes sending, from the computing devi...