ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,615, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Data storage device backup" was invented by Dattatreya Nayak (Bangalore, India) and Arun Shukla (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and data storage devices, such as a data storage device comprising a data path and a controller. The data path comprises a data port to transmit data between a host computer system and the data storage device. The data storage device registers with the host computer system as a block data storage device. A non-volatile storage medium stores encrypted user content ...