US Patent Issued to Serenity Data Security on April 22 for "Management system for hard drive dismantling system" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,457, issued on April 22, was assigned to Serenity Data Security LLC (Carbondale, Ill.).

"Management system for hard drive dismantling system" was invented by Kevin P. Clark (Carbondale, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management system for a hard drive dismantling system automatically monitors the operation and the output of the dismantling system either remotely or onsite. In one embodiment, the number of hard drives processed by the system is determined and a contract value is determined in real-time. A distributed ledger is employed. Payments are automatically transferred between a customer and a service provider according to...