ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,754, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Automatic data erase from data storage device" was invented by Eyal Hamo (Naharia, Israel), Sagi Taragan (Ramat Ishay, Israel) and Alexander Lemberg (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device comprising a non-volatile storage medium configured to store user data, a data port configured to receive and transmit data between a host computer system and the data storage device, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive, via the data port, a write command comprising a read restriction indication, receive, via th...