US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on Nov. 3 for "Memory card reading device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,371, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory card reading device" was invented by Chien Nan Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jiunn Hung Shiau (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Neng Hsien Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a memory card reading device, which includes a communication interface, one or more slots, and a controller. The slot is used for electrically connecting to a memory card. When executing an access command on the memory card, the controller determines whether an error has occurred based on busy duration. When multiple memory cards are disposed and th...