Moxa Assigned Patent

Moxa Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,146,686) developed by Lin, Shang-Jyh, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “external storage device and data storing method for the external storage device.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present invention has the differences in that the external storage device has at least a hard disk drive and at least a nonvolatile memory logically integrated into a storage media through a low level of a system associated with the external storage device, measures the environmental temperature and measures continuously and records if a vibration is generated according to a time period, and selectively stores the data into the hard disk drive or the nonvolatile memory. By means of the above technique, the present invention may provide the efficacy of exemption of effects from unceasing vibrations and unstable operational temperature of the hard disk drive under a mobile environment.“

The patent application was filed on December 12, 2013 (14/103,862).