ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,744, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Controlling access to a demountable storage device" was invented by Alan Brown (Brentford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a data carrier storing program code for causing one or more processors of a data processing system to perform the following steps to control access to a demountable storage device: issue a command to the system to prevent the mounting of at least some demountable storage devices so as to be accessible to applications comprised in a set of user space applications running on the data processing system; estab...