Super Talent Assigned Two Patents

Extended USB plug, USB PCBA, and USB flash drive
with dual-personality
for embedded application with mother boards

Super Talent Electronics, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,297,987) developed by six co-inventors for "extended USB plug, USB PCBA, and USB flash drive with dual-personality for embedded application with mother boards."

The co-inventors are David Nguyen, Nan Nan, Jim Chin-Nan Ni, San Jose, CA, Frank I-Kang Yu, Palo Alto, CA, Abraham C. Ma, Fremont, CA, and Ming-Shiang Shen, Taipei, Taiwan.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An extended universal serial bus (USB) storage device is described herein. According to one embodiment, an extended USB storage device includes a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) having a flash memory device and a flash controller mounted thereon, and an extended USB connector plug coupled to the PCBA for providing a USB compatible interface between an external device and the flash memory device and the flash controller, wherein the extended USB connector plug includes a first end used to couple to the external device and a second end coupled to the flash memory device and the flash controller. The extended USB connector plug includes multiple communication interfaces. Other methods and apparatuses are also described."

The patent application was filed on Aug. 16, 2011 (13/211,100).

Single-chip flash device
with boot code transfer capability

Super Talent Electronics, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,296,467) developed by four co-inventors for a "single-chip flash device with boot code transfer capability."

The co-inventors are Charles C. Lee, Cupertino, CA, Frank Yu, Palo Alto, CA, Abraham C. Ma, Fremont, CA, and Shimon Chen, Los Gatos, CA

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A Multi-Media Card (MMC) Single-Chip flash Device (SCFD) contains a MMC flash microcontroller and flash mass storage blocks containing flash memory arrays that are block-addressable rather than randomly-addressable. An initial boot loader is read from the first page of flash by a state machine and written to a small RAM. A central processing unit (CPU) in the microcontroller reads instructions from the small RAM, executing the initial boot loader, which reads more pages from flash. These pages are buffered by the small RAM and written to a larger DRAM. Once an extended boot sequence is written to DRAM, the CPU toggles a RAM_BASE bit to cause instruction fetching from DRAM. Then the extended boot sequence is executed from DRAM, copying an OS image from flash to DRAM. Boot code and control code are selectively overwritten during a code updating operation to eliminate stocking issues."

The patent application was filed on Nov. 16, 2010 (12/947,211).