US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Sept. 1 for "Selective data corruption before actual erase operation for data security" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,549, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Selective data corruption before actual erase operation for data security" was invented by Pitamber Shukla (San Jose, Calif.), Nian Niles Yang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Achyut Chandulal Gedia (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a controller may receive a command to perform an erase operation to erase data stored in a block of a non-volatile memory device. The controller may determine a size of the data identified by the command. The controller may provide, based on the size of the data, a programming pulse to...