ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,376, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Method and device for securing user data on a data storage device" was invented by Ravi Dutt Sharma (Bengaluru, India), Ashish Jaiswal (Bengaluru, India), Uma Sachdeva (Bengaluru, India), Tusarkanta Champatiray (Bengaluru, India) and Yogendra Singh Sikarwar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device comprises a data port configured to transceive data between a data source and the data storage device, a non-volatile storage medium, configured to store encrypted user data, and a wireless communication port, configured to...