ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,378, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Data storage device management system" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India) and Balaji Thraksha Venkataramanan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are disclosed wherein an end user can remotely trigger direct data management activities of a data storage device (DSD), such as creating a data snapshot, resetting a snapshot, and setting permissions at the DSD via a remote mobile device app interface."
The patent was filed on June 27, 2022, under Application No. 17/850,483.
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