ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,223, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"File protection using an external data storage device" was invented by Wei Hong Tew (Penang, Malaysia), Tze Ping Chan (Penang, Malaysia) and Jun Jeen Heng (Perak, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host system is configured to sequester protected data files to a separate data storage device. The host system includes an input device for receiving commands from a user, storage media for storing data files including the protected data files, a communication interface configured to communicate with the separate data storage device, and a network...