JPMorgan Chase Bank Assigned Patent

JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (11,113,429) developed by Halladay, Trevis A., Wesley Chapel, FL, for a “solid state storage data destruction.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method of permanently erasing the contents of a Solid-State Drive (SSD) which involves the destruction of the storage portion of the SSD by rapidly heating that portion of the SSD to a state at which the semiconductor devices which make up the SSD are destroyed or damaged. The system and method allows a user to locally or remotely erase a SSD drive to prevent the contents of the drive from being compromised. Certain embodiments of the system and method provide for the automatic destruction of the SSD should the device be connected to an unregistered drive controller.”

The patent application was filed on February 26, 2019 (16/285,514).