ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,735, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Method and device for data storage device user authentication" was invented by Prajual PJ (Bengaluru, India), Penki Supriya (District Rayagada, India) and Shinoj Bhaskaran (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device comprises a non-volatile storage medium comprising at least a first logical unit configured to store encrypted user data associated with a first user and a data port configured to receive and transmit data between a host computer system and the data storage device. The data storage device is configured to rece...