US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Access control system and a data storage device" (Indian, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,504, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Access control system and a data storage device" was invented by Mayur Dipchand Jain (Bangalore, India), Rotem Sela (Milpitas, Calif.), Meenakshi C (Bangalore, India), Danny Berler (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Kakumanu Ambika K (Yerrupalem, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access control system, data storage device, and method to enable an authorized host computing system to access replay protected memory blocks (RPMB) in a data storage device (DSD). This includes an access control system determining the host computing system to be authorized t...