ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,974, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Attestable secure erase" was invented by Bryan David Kelly (Carnation, Wash.), Monish Shantilal Shah (Pune, India) and Shruti Sethi (Sacramento, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method securely erasing data on a storage drive includes transmitting a communication that initiates an erasure operation on a storage drive and receiving a drive erasure attestation generated in association with erasure operation and by a root-of-trust of the storage drive. The drive erasure attestation includes a first claim that contains cryptographic evide...