ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,027, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Kingston Digital Inc. (Fountain Valley, Calif.).

"Multi-port data accessing device" was invented by Yi-Ting Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Hsien-Chih Chang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chang-Hsing Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Hao-Yin Lo (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Ben Wei Chen (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable data accessing device and more particularly the use of multi-port interfaces on a data accessing device disclosed. The multi-port data accessing device includes an inner body, one or a plurality of moving-caps, one or a plurality of grips, a pump-action and one or a plurality of locking/...