ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,765, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Method and device for secure data transfer and storage" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India) and Sundararajan Rajagopal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device comprising a data port, configured to transceive data via a wired communication channel, a control port, configured to transceive data via a peer-to-peer wireless communication channel, a non-volatile storage medium, and a controller. In response to receiving, from a user device, via the control port, a command to enable control channel access, t...