ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,381, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Transceiver light plug" was invented by Padmanabhan Narayanan (Chennai, India) and Shree Rathinasamy (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises one or more transceiver ports and at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The at least one processing device is configured to detect a transceiver light plug interconnected with a transceiver plugged into a given one of the transceiver ports, and to exchange, via a first set of connectors of the transceiver which are operably connected with a second s...