US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for improving security in universal flash devices regarding purge operations" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,032, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for improving security in universal flash devices regarding purge operations" was invented by Vamsi Krishna Sambangi (Vizianagaram, India), Sai Naresh Gajapaka (Hyderabad, India), Santhosh Reddy Akavaram (Hyderabad, India) and Venkatesha M Iyengar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for improving security of a Universal Flash Storage (UFS) device during a purge operation. If a purge operation being performed in the UFS device is interrupted prematurely, due to issuance of one or more urgent commands, the UFS device n...