Samsung patents car storage drive that locks data during crashes
Samsung describes a storage drive for cars that plugs directly into the vehicle's network switch to save video and sensor data. If the system detects a specific event, like a crash, it switches to a read-only mode to prevent the data from being deleted or altered.
In the filing’s own words
A data storage device includes: a housing integrating a control logic, a data protection logic, and a non-volatile storage; and a network interface connector integrated to the housing and is configured to be directly inserted into a network switch. The control logic is configured to store a vehicle data including a video stream in the non-volatile storage. The video stream is received from a video camera that is connected to the network switch. The data protection logic is configured to detect a vehicle event and change an operating mode of the data storage device to a read-only mode prohibiting the vehicle data stored in the non-volatile storage from being erased or tampered.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A storage device comprising: a non-volatile storage; a network interface coupled to a network switch; a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: receive sensor data from a sensor device over the network interface; store the sensor data in the non-volatile storage; detect a condition; and based on detecting the condition, change an operating mode of the non-volatile storage from a first mode to a second mode for controlling the sensor data in the storage device.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ETHERNET-ATTACHED SSD FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS
- Publication number
- US20260310613A1
- Application number
- 19708615
- Filed
- Jun 15, 2026
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 12/1425 Physics & computingG06F 12/1433 Physics & computingG06F 21/10 Physics & computingG06F 21/6227 Physics & computingG07C 5/0866 Physics & computingH04N 5/44504 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Cars & transport
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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