ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,605, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Electronic device" was invented by Yanmei Han (Guangdong, China), Ebing Shen (Guangdong, China) and Tieyi Liang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electronic device, including: a switch element; and a memory card slot suitable for receiving a memory card. The memory card slot includes a power supply pin and a detection pin, and the power supply pin of the memory card slot being connected to a power supply through the switch element. The memory card slot has a first configuration where a memory card is received ...