Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 10, 2022
Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008. The thumb drive was all that—and more.
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