Unable to Format Dell Mentor USB

I work for a company that orders allot of laptops and we keep receiving the Win10 Editions of the MentorMedia USB drives, they always come write-protected and no amount of cmd properties clearing or formatting can seem to bypass this lock. 

I started looking into low-level formatting, at this link here http://www.techunboxed.com/2016/09/how-to-disable-write-protection-on-dell.html 

and found that this also was unsuccessful, it seems i might be missing the required drivers for the usb stick but I'm not sure if that's the case. 

honestly, we have so many and with them being 16GB and relatively high quality I would hate to throw them away but that's the choice I'm left with at the moment. if anyone can shed some light on whats going on that would be great. 

here is the software and the error it throws up