Walton Advanced Engineering Assigned Patent

Walton Advanced Engineering, Inc., Kaohsiung, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,515,236) developed by Yu, Hong Chi, and Chang, Mao Ting, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, for a “data retention device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present disclosure relates to a data retention device designed for security of digital classified information. In the data retention device, a power source component is first activated by a fingerprint switch. When a data plug of a dedicated storage module and a data socket of an encryption module are connected with each other, a locking element in the encryption module is fixed at a locking hole in the dedicated storage module and the encryption module is electrically connected to the dedicated storage module through the data socket. Then, with an external component of the encryption module electrically connected to an external device, classified information is accessed, encrypted in the encryption module and saved in the storage element.”

The patent application was filed on February 15, 2019 (16/276,691).