Kingston Assigned Patent

Kingston Technology Corp., Fountain Valley, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,667,191) developed by four co-inventors for “managing and identifying multiple memory storage devices.“

The co-inventors are David Sun, Fountain Valley, CA, Ngoc Le, Choon-Tak Tang, Irvine, CA, and Chin-Tang Yen, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A management hub is disclosed. The management hub comprises an interface; a master hub controller coupled to the interface; a plurality of ports coupled to the master hub controller; a microcontroller coupled to the master hub controller; and hub setting switch and a slave hub controller coupled to the microcontroller and the plurality of ports. The management hub also includes a memory device coupled to the microcontroller, the memory device including a hidden drive information partition and a hidden drive organizer partition for managing and identifying information in various drives coupled to the plurality of ports, wherein when the management hub is first connected to a host system the drives are displayed in an inactive state.”

The patent application was filed on Jan. 15, 2010 (12/688,792).