US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Solid-state drive secure data wiping for reuse and recycling" (American, Israeli, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,708, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Solid-state drive secure data wiping for reuse and recycling" was invented by Daniel J. Linnen (Limestone, Tenn.), Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India), Preston Thomson (Boise, Idaho), Kirubakaran Periyannan (Saratoga, Calif.), Niles Nian Yang (Mountain View, Calif.), Inez Hua (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for reliably erasing data from a solid-state drive (SSD) includes first, prior to user data being stored on the drive, generating a restore image of information stored on the driv...