US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on April 29 for "Card and host apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,694, issued on April 29, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Card and host apparatus" was invented by Akihisa Fujimoto (Fussa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host apparatus, into which a card having a nonvolatile semiconductor memory is inserted, issues a check command to the card. The check command instructs to send information on whether the card supports a termination process in which the card shifts into a state ready for a stop of power supply from the host apparatus."

The patent was filed on Sept. 7, 2023, under Application No. 18/462,493.

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