It is easy to look at a small plastic drive on a desk and assume someone sat down, drew a blueprint, and built it out of thin air. Plenty of devices were genius inventions that one person could lay claim to, sometimes building off the foundation of others. However, hardware history rarely works like that, and combining parts from separate inventions usually turns into a brawl over who crossed the finish line first. The USB flash drive is no different.
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