ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,402, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Active and passive adapter for a microSD card" was invented by Raghavan Nagarajan (Bangalore, India), Varun Gopal (Bangalore, India), Hariharapandian S (Bangalore, India) and Balaji G K (Hosur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter for a removable data storage device includes a substrate having a signal plane and ground plane. The signal plane includes a socket for receiving a removable data storage device, such as a microSD card. Traces are embedded in the signal plane of the substrate and electrically couple contact pins within the sock...