Realtek Semiconductor Assigned Patent

Realtek Semiconductor Corp., Hsinchu, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (11,379,396) developed by Shiau, Jiunn-Hung, Taipei, Taiwan, and Lin, Neng-Hsien, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, for “memory card access module and memory card access method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A memory card access module and a memory card access method are provided. The memory card access method is applied to an electronic device. A processing unit of the electronic device accesses a memory card through a memory card slot. The method includes steps of: detecting whether the memory card supports a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface, when the memory card does not support the PCIe interface, controlling the processing unit to access the memory card through a data transmission path and performing data format conversion between a transmission interface and the PCIe interface using a memory card access unit disposed on the data transmission path, and when the memory card supports the PCIe interface, controlling the processing unit to access the memory card through a PCIe data transmission path that allows the processing unit and the memory card to transmit data through the PCIe interface.”

The patent application was filed on May 27, 2020 (16/884,313)