Akamai Assigned Patent

Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA, has been assigned a patent (10,589,286) developed by Hopkins, Brandon J., Cambridge, MA, and Riggle, Kevin A., Somerville, MA, for an “efficiently sanitizing a solid state drive (SSD).“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A low-cost, portable, destructive sanitization method for solid state drives (SSDs) is provided. Preferably, an SSD is destroyed by disintegration within a given time period, (approximately 30 minutes or less) using a blending device operating at a given peak power, e.g., greater than 450 W. A pulverizing agent may be admixed with pieces of an SSD printed circuit board prior to initiating the disintegration process to increase the number of particle collisions in a processing/blending chamber. The pulverizing agent may also contain moisture that mitigates suspension of processed SDD particles in the surrounding air, (when the mixing chamber is opened). The overall process may be video-recorded for compliance purposes.”

The patent application was filed on August 20, 2015 (14/831,370).