US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on July 14 for "Combination connector" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,879, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Combination connector" was invented by Po Chun Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Ming Shan Tsai (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chih-Chung Yu (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Pao Jen Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination connector for receiving DisplayPort and Universal Serial Bus (USB) Type-C type connectors. The combination connector includes a PCB with a first row of DisplayPort pins and a second row of USB pins on either side of the PCB. The second row of USB pins are provided on a projection along one edge of the PCB such that...