ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,728, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Assisted docking setup for information handling systems" was invented by Kearson M. McNulty (Austin, Texas), Trent A. Buys (Seattle) and Cherian Samuel Mathews (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods support docking of an Information Handling System (IHS) to a docking station. A default docking connection of the IHS to the docking station is detected, the connection providing use peripheral devices coupled to the docking station. Respective identities of the docking station and of the peripheral devices are determined. The resp...