US Patent Issued to SILICON MOTION on Feb. 10 for "Electronic device for accessing an SD card with combined address, and method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,324, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Electronic device for accessing an SD card with combined address, and method thereof" was invented by Chao-Kuei Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for accessing a secure digital (SD) card, which includes a voltage supply pin for receiving voltage supply from a host, at least one ground pin, a command pin for receiving a command from a host, and four data pins for writing data into the SD card or reading data from the SD card. The method includes receiving, via the command pin, an address ex...