Fulian Precision Electronics Assigned Patent

Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., Tianjin, China, has been assigned a patent (11960732) developed by Zhu, Jian-Hua, Tianjin, China, for a “method for identifying hard drive transitionally and finally with drive letter identification and electronic device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method for allocating a drive letter to hot-swapped, newly-inserted, or doubly-identified hard disks obtains a number of hard disks connected and information of each device, the device information comprises slot information of the hard disk. A transitional drive letter is allocated to the hard disk according to their number and information of those devices, the transitional drive letter comprises a slot number corresponding to the slot information. A system drive letter is reallocated to the hard disk according to an order of the drive letter issued as a transitional drive letter. An electronic device and a non-volatile storage medium therein, for performing the above-described method, are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-08-19 (17/891543).