US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 31 for "Data storage device and method of access with user fingerprint" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,651, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method of access with user fingerprint" was invented by Ankilla Mahipal Reddy (Bangalore, India), Shubhi Khanna (Bangalore, India), Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India) and Adithya Vasudevan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device comprising: a storage medium; a communication interface to enable communication with a host device; and a flash translation layer (FTL) module. The FTL module is configured to: receive a fingerprint key of an enrolled user from a fingerprint sensor; determine selec...