ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,777, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Data backup method of storage device using sensor information, and storage device and storage system performing the same" was invented by Ganggyu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Insup Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data backup method of a storage device, environment information is received from at least one environmental sensor such that an operating environment in which the storage device is operating is monitored. An event detection signal is generated based on the environment information. In response to g...