Hoey Assigned Patent

Hoey Co., Ltd., Taoyuan, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (9,519,316) developed by Huang, Joseph, Taoyuan, Taiwan, for a “flash drive with attached cover.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A flash drive includes a housing comprising a front wall, a rear wall and an inner space formed by the front wall and the rear wall, a storage module disposed in the inner space, a plug head mounted at one end of the storage module, a positioning element positioning the storage module in the inner space of the housing in such a manner that the plug head protrudes from one end of the housing, and a cover pivoted to the front wall and the rear wall through an eccentric-rotation structure to cover or uncover the plug head.“

The patent application was filed on July 9, 2015 (14/794,957).