US Patent Issued to Crystal Group on June 23 for "Tamper and zeroization response unit" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,295, issued on June 23, was assigned to Crystal Group Inc. (Hiawatha, Iowa).

"Tamper and zeroization response unit" was invented by James E Shaw (Ely, Iowa), Adrian A Hill (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Michael A Steffen (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Matt Seivert (Palo, Iowa), Alan High (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and William Byers (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device that encapsulates functions necessary to sanitize an electronic system after detecting tampering or when user zeroization occurs. The device includes a FPGA, sensors, external tamper sensors, a battery, interfaces or discrete signals required to execute sanitization of hard dr...