LPDP Technologies Assigned Patent
System including portable storage device equipped with user proximity detector and method of preventing loss thereof.
By Francis Pelletier | November 27, 2015 at 2:32 pmLPDP Technologies Ltd., Ashdod, Israel, has been assigned a patent (9,177,453) developed by Gill, Abraham, Givat Shmuel, Israel, and Hadad, Avi, Ashkelon, Israel, for a “system including a portable storage device equipped with a user proximity detector and method of preventing the loss thereof.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A portable storage system. The portable storage system comprises a portable storage device having a flash memory element and a loss-prevention unit. The portable storage system further comprises Master and Slave proximity elements. One of the proximity elements is physically connected with the portable storage device, while the other is physically connected with the loss-prevention unit. The Master proximity element is configured to wirelessly determine the presence of the Slave proximity element within a predefined range.“
The patent application was filed on August 20, 2006 (11/990,629).