Hon Hai Precision Industry Assigned Patent

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (8,914,907) by Chuang Chih-Fu, Hsiao Wen-Ching, and Lin Yu-Jyun, New Taipei, Taiwan, for a “electronic device for protecting data.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An electronic device generates an access signal according to user input. The electronic device includes a processor, a key circuit to generate a key signal according to press of the user, a storage unit to store data, a clock generator circuit to generate a clock signal, and a protection circuit. The protection circuit generates an enable signal or a disable signal according to the key signal and the clock signal to control the storage unit to unlock or lock, and transmits the access signal to the storage unit to access the data.“

The patent application was filed on October 17, 2012 (13/653,433).