ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,738, issued on March 4, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Card reader and controller, and method for permission management" was invented by Jiunn-Hung Shiau (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Neng-Hsien Lin (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card reader and a controller thereof, and a method are provided. The card reader includes a storage device and the controller, wherein the controller is coupled to the storage device. The storage device is configured to store specific identification data of a specific memory device. The controller is configured to receive identification data of the external memory ...