Wiwynn Assigned Patent

Wiwynn Corporation, New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,346,340) developed by Tseng, Chia-Nung, Yang, Yao-Hao, and Du, Yung-Jung, New Taipei, Taiwan, for “hot swap control circuit and related storage server system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A hot swap control circuit is utilized for detecting operating status of an NVMe storage module to generate a detection report to a storage server, wherein the detection report indicates at least one of a hot remove event and a hot add event. The hot remove event happens when at least one NVMe storage device of the NVMe storage module is removed, and the hot swap control circuit reports the hot remove event to the storage server by the detection report. Moreover, the hot add event happens when a new NVMe storage device is added to the NVMe storage module, and the hot swap control circuit reports the hot add event to the storage server by the detection report.”

The patent application was filed on May 24, 2018 (15/989,129).