US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 31 for "Data storage device and method of access in confidential mode and normal mode" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,375, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method of access in confidential mode and normal mode" was invented by Ganesh Kumar Pathirakani (Kovilpatti, India), Nagarajan Ragupathy (Bangalore, India) and Ashutosh Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device (DSD) (1) comprising: a storage medium (13); and at least one flash interface module (FIM) (27), wherein in response to a signal (4) of a switch (3) is configured to selectively transition operation of the DSD (1) between two modes. A confidential mode, in which security data (7) i...