US Patent Issued to SILICON MOTION on Sept. 8 for "Method for initializing secure digital card supporting SD mode and PCIe mode and controller thereof" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,573, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method for initializing secure digital card supporting SD mode and PCIe mode and controller thereof" was invented by Chao-Kuei Hsieh (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method performed by a secure digital (SD) card supporting both an SD mode and a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) mode for initializing the SD card. The method includes: (a) after receiving a first supply voltage through a first voltage supply pin from a host coupled to the SD card, entering the SD mode if the SD card ...