ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,312, issued on April 21, was assigned to GENESYS LOGIC INC. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Data access control method of memory card and computer system" was invented by Wen-Teng Hsieh (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Shi-Chin Lee (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chi-Hsuan Tu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data access control method of a memory card and a computer system are provided. The computer system detects whether a memory card supports a first communication protocol version and a second communication protocol version. When the memory card supports the second communication protocol version, a access protection s...