ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,877, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Read-protected storage device with sequential logging" was invented by Julian Vlaiko (Kfar Saba, Israel), Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel), Aki Bleyer (Givatayim, Israel), Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of incorporating a single interface towards the host for transferring data, utilizing a designated write-only storage logging device. The write-only storage logging device can accept sequential streams and automatically overwrite. The control...