ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,728, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Securely erasing data on inoperative storage device" was invented by Govind Mangal (Bangalore, India) and Saurabh Singh (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device ensures erasure of a first memory device even when the storage device is in an unrecoverable state. The storage device includes the first memory device and a controller. The controller executes operations on the first memory device in response to instructions received from a host coupled to the storage device. The controller may detect when an unrecoverable error occ...