Innodisk Assigned Patent

Innodisk Corporation, New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,755,789) developed by Kao, Chih-Chieh, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “write protection circuit.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The invention provides a write protection circuit, which is applied to a data storage device. The data storage device comprises a controller and a plurality of flash memories. The flash memories comprise a write protection pin. The write protection circuit comprises a fuse and a switch. When the switch is operated in a turned on state, the fuse is directly grounded via the switch and therefore is burned, and a signal on the write protection pin of the flash memories becomes a signal with a low-level state so that the flash memories of the data storage device will be permanently inhibited to be written.”

The patent application was filed on August 6, 2019 (16/532,871).