Innovative Memory Systems Assigned Patent

Innovative Memory Systems, Inc., Costa Mesa, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,864,535) developed by Moran, Dov, Kafar Subar, Israel, Elazar, Gidi, Tsur Yigal, Israel, Harkabi, Dan, Moshav Lahish, Israel, and Dan, Raz, Tel Aviv, Israel, for a “removable, active, personal storage device, system and method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage device is configured to communicate with a host device over a Bluetooth connection. The storage device includes a flash memory, a processor, and a Bluetooth controller. The memory stores at least one permission for determining access to the memory. The processor manages access to the memory, independently of the host device, based on a comparison of a request at the removable storage device to access the memory to at least one permission. The comparison is independent, requiring no management by an operating system of the host device, such that if the at least one permission includes a particular access type that matches the access requested in the request, the processor provides access to the memory.”

The patent application was filed on August 11, 2014 (14/457,096).