US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Smart card with bus interface receptacle printed as part of PCB" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,875, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Smart card with bus interface receptacle printed as part of PCB" was invented by Matthew Harris Klapman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure a smart card device that provides a bus interface, such as a USB-C bus interface, printed on a portion of a PCB that forms a base layer of the smart card device. The smart card device can provide the bus interface without having to mount a traditional socket. By leveraging the portion of the PCB to provide a printed bus interface and excluding the traditional socket, the bus interface...