ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,699, issued on May 12, was assigned to Communications Test Design Inc. (West Chester, Pa.).

"Apparatus and methods for automatically removing data of mobile devices" was invented by Sean Parsons (West Chester, Pa.), Brian Parsons (Malvern, Pa.), Mark Parsons (West Chester, Pa.), Austin Gunter (Flower Mound, Texas), Nidhin Davis (Glen Mills, Pa.), Krissy Durkin (Colora, Md.), Mario Huber (Kuppenheim, Germany), Martin Fiedler (Karlsruhe, Germany), Annedore Bach (Durmersheim, Germany) and Jitendra Jain (Exton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for automatically removing customer data of a mobile device are disclose...