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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2009
Applicants:
Kurt Edmiston, Austin, TX (US);
Donald Gage, Leander, TX (US);
Ryan Holland, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A data storage device includes a computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program that, when executed communicates with a basic input/output system (BIOS), receives a user selection from the BIOS to wipe the data storage device and performs a wipe of the data storage device. In an embodiment, the wipe of the data storage device includes writing a series of 1s and/or 0s to substantially all data bits of the data storage device.