ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,871, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Cellular-to-USB and cellular-to-DisplayPort SW mitigation" was invented by Lior Ben-Yehoshua (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to techniques and apparatuses for mitigating interference on SuperSpeed (SS) pins of a Universal Serial Bus Type C (USB-C) resulting from wireless communications, such as cellular and/or Wi-Fi communications. Specifically, a USB-C module may determine that a high-speed connection is to be established on the SS pins, and may interrupt the establishment procedure. The USB-C module may then provide an indi...