ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,266, issued on June 30, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Power source serialization, detection, and information transmission" was invented by Anton Rang (Houlton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising generating data comprising a power source identifier to be transmitted as a data transmission; and transmitting, to a power consumer, the data transmission via a power connection from a power source. The data transmission can comprise other informa...