ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,188, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Expansion board detection" was invented by Chi-Sheng Hsu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Sheng Chi Huang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Hung-Chu Lee (Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system includes a circuit board having a connector to receive an expansion board. The system includes a controller to detect a state of a signal from the connector and determine a presence or absence of the expansion board in the connector based on the detected state of the signal from the connector. The determining includes indicat...