US Patent Issued to SanDisk IL on March 1 for "Method and System for Maintaining Backup of Portable Storage Devices" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 2 -- United States Patent no. 7,900,061, issued on March 1, was assigned to SanDisk IL Ltd. (Kfar Saba, Israel).

"Method and System for Maintaining Backup of Portable Storage Devices" was invented by Mordechai Teicher (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Tal Segalov (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data stored in a portable storage device are encrypted, for example by a processor of the portable storage device itself, using a backup key and stored in a backup medium. The backup key is protected by being stored in a backup key storage medium, such as an internet server, a pocketable medium or a trusted computer, preferably after being encrypted using a password. As needed, the backup key is retrieved and used to decrypt the data from the backup medium. The decrypted data are restored to the original portable storage device or to a different portable storage device."

The patent was filed on June 18, 2007, under Application No. 11/764,239.

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