ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,229, issued on May 12, was assigned to Iron Mountain Inc. (Boston).
"Magnetic storage declassification device" was invented by Thomas Delahunty (Milford, Mass.) and Eugene McCabe (Milford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media declassification device receives a media component such as a magnetic hard disk drive, and deletes data stored thereon by physical agitation and dismantling the media component. A cutting blade shears or grinds a perimeter region around a top of the hard disk drive (HDD drive, or simply drive) to a predetermined depth calculated to remove heads from screws and other fasteners securing a metal top panel. I...