Imation Assigned Patent

Imation Corp., Oakdale, MN, has been assigned a patent (8,438,647) developed by David Alexander Jevans, Los Altos, CA, for a "recovery of encrypted data from a secure storage device."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exemplary software product to recover encrypted data from a target secure storage device can comprise software operational when executed by a processor to receive a recovery request to recovery the encrypted data, send a transfer command to the target secure storage device, receive an authorization request from the target secure storage device in response to the transfer command, respond to the authorization request, and receive the encrypted data from the target secure storage device."

The patent application was filed on Sept. 19, 2006 (11/523,968).