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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8301831 | Backward compatible extended USB plug and receptacle with dual personality An extended Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) connector plug and socket each have a pin substrate with one surface that supports the four metal contact pins for the standard USB interface. An extension of the pin substrate carries another 8 extension metal contact pins tha... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8297987 | Extended USB plug, USB PCBA, and USB flash drive with dual-personality for embedded application with mother boards An extended universal serial bus (USB) storage device is described herein. According to one embodiment, an extended USB storage device includes a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) having a flash memory device and a flash controller mounted thereon, and an extend... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8262416 | Dual-personality extended USB plugs and receptacles using with PCBA and cable assembly An extended USB plug connector includes a connector substrate including a frontend having a first set of electrical contact pins disposed thereon and a backend having a second set of electrical contact pins disposed thereon. The first set includes a first row of ele... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8240034 | High throughput manufacturing method for micro flash memory cards According to certain embodiments of the invention, a flash memory card is manufactured using COB processes on a PCB panel with multiple micro cards PCB substrates. These micro memory cards are laid out in an array of 3×5 matrixes of micro cards PCB substrates. A me... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8073985 | Backward compatible extended USB plug and receptacle with dual personality An extended Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) connector plug and socket each have a pin substrate with one surface that supports the four metal contact pins for the standard USB interface. An extension of the pin substrate carries another 8 extension metal contact pins tha... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8043099 | Extended USB plug, USB PCBA, and USB flash drive with dual-personality An extended universal serial bus (USB) storage device is described herein. According to one embodiment, an extended USB storage device includes a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) having a flash memory device and a flash controller mounted thereon, and an extend... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8021166 | Extended USB plug, USB PCBA, and USB flash drive with dual-personality for embedded application with mother boards An extended universal serial bus (USB) storage device is described herein. According to one embodiment, an extended USB storage device includes a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) having a flash memory device and a flash controller mounted thereon, and an extend... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7984303 | Flash memory devices with security features In an electronic data storage device accessed by a host computer motherboard, a fingerprint sensor scans a fingerprint of a user of the electronic data storage device and generates fingerprint scan data. A processing unit activates an input/output interface circuit ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7966429 | Peripheral devices using phase-change memory Peripheral devices store data in non-volatile phase-change memory (PCM). PCM cells have alloy resistors with high-resistance amorphous states and low-resistance crystalline states. The peripheral device can be a Serial AT-Attachment (SATA) or integrated device elect... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965546 | Synchronous page-mode phase-change memory with ECC and RAM cache Phase-change memory (PCM) cells store data using alloy resistors in high-resistance amorphous and low-resistance crystalline states. The time of the memory cell's set-current pulse can be 100 ns, much longer than read or reset times. The write time thus depends on t... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7889544 | High-speed controller for phase-change memory peripheral device Peripheral devices store data in non-volatile phase-change memory (PCM). PCM cells have alloy resistors with high-resistance amorphous states and low-resistance crystalline states. The peripheral device can be a Multi-Media Card/Secure Digital (MMC/SD) card. A PCM c... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7874067 | Manufacturing method for single chip COB USB devices with optional embedded LED According to certain embodiments of the invention, a single chip COB USB manufacturing is using chip-on-board (COB) processes on a PCB panel with multiple individual USB PCB substrates. This single chip COB USB is laid out in an array of N×M matrixes. The advantage... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7850082 | Extended universal serial bus (USB) card reader An extended universal serial bus (USB) card reader device is described herein. In one embodiment, a card reader includes a first extended USB (EUSB) connector to be coupled to an external host system, multiple flash memory card sockets capable of receiving multiple ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7815469 | Dual-personality extended USB plugs and receptacles using with PCBA and cable assembly An extended universal serial bus (USB) storage device is described herein. According to one embodiment, an extended USB storage device includes a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) having a flash memory device and a flash controller mounted thereon, and an extend... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7806705 | Slide flash memory devices A portable USB device with an improved configuration is described herein. According to one embodiment, a portable USB device includes a core unit having a USB plug connector coupled to one or more flash memory devices and a flash controller disposed therein, where t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7744387 | Multi-level cell (MLC) rotate flash memory device A portable USB device is described herein. According to one embodiment, a portable USB device includes a core unit having a USB plug connector coupled to one or more multi-level cell (MLC) flash memory devices and an MLC flash controller disposed therein. The device... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7676640 | Flash memory controller controlling various flash memory cells An electronic data flash card is accessible by a host system, and includes a flash memory controller and at least one flash memory device coupled to the flash controller. The boot code and control code for the flash memory system (flash card) are stored in the flash... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7664902 | Extended SD and microSD hosts and devices with USB-like high performance packetized interface and protocol An extended Secure-Digital (SD) card has a second interface that uses some of the SD-interface lines. A card-detection routine on a host can initially use the SD interface to detect extended capabilities and command the card to switch to using the second interface. ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660941 | Two-level RAM lookup table for block and page allocation and wear-leveling in limited-write flash-memories A restrictive multi-level-cell (MLC) flash memory prohibits regressive page-writes. When a regressive page-write is requested, an empty block having a low wear-level count is found, and data from the regressive page-write and data from pages stored in the old block ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7628622 | Multi-level cell (MLC) slide flash memory A portable USB device with an improved configuration is described herein. According to one embodiment, a portable USB device includes a core unit having a USB plug connector coupled to one or more multi-level cell (MLC) flash memory devices and an MLC flash controll... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7606111 | Synchronous page-mode phase-change memory with ECC and RAM cache Phase-change memory (PCM) cells store data using alloy resistors in high-resistance amorphous and low-resistance crystalline states. The time of the memory cell's set-current pulse can be 100 ns, much longer than read or reset times. The write time thus depends on t... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7475174 | Flash / phase-change memory in multi-ring topology using serial-link packet interface A multi-ring memory controller sends request packets to multiple rings of serial flash-memory chips. Each of the multiple rings has serial flash-memory chips with serial links in a uni-directional ring. Each serial flash-memory chip has a bypassing transceiver with ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7471556 | Local bank write buffers for accelerating a phase-change memory Phase-change memory (PCM) cells store data using alloy resistors in high-resistance amorphous and low-resistance crystalline states. The time of the memory cell's set-current pulse can be 100 ns, much longer than read or reset times. The write time thus depends on t... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7440287 | Extended USB PCBA and device with dual personality An extended Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) connector plug and socket each have a pin substrate with one surface that supports the four metal contact pins for the standard USB interface. An extension of the pin substrate carries another 8 extension metal contact pins tha... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440316 | 8/9 and 8/10-bit encoding to reduce peak surge currents when writing phase-change memory Phase-change memory (PCM) cells store data using alloy resistors in high-resistance amorphous and low-resistance crystalline states. The memory cell's reset current can be double a set current, causing peak currents to depend on write data. When all data bits are re... | 10/21/2008 |
