TeleCommunication Systems Assigned Patent

TeleCommunication Systems, Inc., Annapolis, MD, has been assigned a patent (8,533,853) developed by Roydn Jones, Redondo Beach, CA, and Ken Vancouvering, Torrance, CA, for a “location sensitive solid state drive.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage system including a SSD includes a capability to detect whether its location is acceptable for function, and a capability to self-disable in the event the location of the device is unacceptable, or to self-enable only while the location of the device is acceptable.”

The patent application was filed on June 11, 2010 (12/814,180).