US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 21 for "Configuring input/output (I/O) ports in response to accidents" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,325, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Configuring input/output (I/O) ports in response to accidents" was invented by Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas), Daniel L. Hamlin (Round Rock, Texas) and Balasingh P. Samuel (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for configuring Input/Output (I/O) ports in response to accidents are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include an Embedded Controller (EC) and a memory coupled to the EC, where the memory comprises program instructions that, upon execution by the EC, cause the IHS to change...