Innodisk Assigned Patent

Innodisk Corporation, New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,437,767) developed by Hsu, Che-Ming, and Chang, Cheng-Chun, New Taipei, Taiwan, for an “expandable interface board.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present invention provides an expandable interface board. The interface board is an interface board conforming to M.2 interface protocol specification, comprises a plurality of data storage elements, a data transmission interface, a controller, and at least one connection seat. The data transmission interface comprises a plurality of first interface pins and a plurality of second interface pins. The interface board is electrically connected to an external electronic device via the connection seat. Wherein the first interface pins are defined for transmitting data signals of the data storage elements, and the second interface pins are defined for transmitting data signals of the external electronic device. Accordingly, an electronic product applied by the interface board is able to expand it’s functions by the external electronic device connected to the connection seat of the interface board.”

The patent application was filed on September 12, 2017 (15/702,644).