New Concepts Development Assigned Patent

New Concepts Development Corporation, Woodstock, IL, has been assigned a patent (11953947) developed by Chou, Wen-chien, and Volk, Tal, Woodstock, IL, for a “flash drive.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A flash drive includes a main housing, a USB adapter unit mounted in the main housing and extending out of the main housing, an inner housing movably connected to the main housing, and a flash memory unit including a flash memory that is mounted in the inner housing, and a USB-A plug that is connected to the flash memory. The inner housing is operable to move, with respect to the main housing, between a USB-C position, where the USB-A plug is electrically connected to the USB adapter unit to allow for data transfer therebetween, and a USB-A position, where the USB-A plug is detached from the USB adapter unit to prevent data transfer therebetween, such that data is transferable to and from the flash memory via the USB-A plug.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-06-25 (17/359301).