US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on June 23 for "Affecting data communications of fibre optic port connections" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,675, issued on June 23, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Affecting data communications of fibre optic port connections" was invented by Andrew Breedy (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a mechanism for disconnecting a fibre optic connection from its port without needing to physically remove the cable from the port. In one or more embodiments, a fibre optic receiver (which may be a transceiver) is flooded with light from a light emitting device (e.g., an LED source), which saturates any incoming light signals from the fibre optic cable. In one or more embodiments, the light emitting ...