ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,835, issued on May 19.
"Hard drive destruction device and method" was invented by Chris Hansen (Berryville, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hard drive destruction device includes a kiosk having: a user interface, a hard drive portal, a camera, and a crushing unit; and a software for managing the hard drive destruction device. The software includes: an artificial intelligence and/or machine learning software component that detects and analyzes a hard drive inserted into the hard drive portal using the camera; and a back-end software component comprising a memory that stores a captured image of the hard drive, a verification inform...