ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,345, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Power supply connector" was invented by Hsueh-Yu Chao (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Chiang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Kuan-Wei Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply adapter, a system and a method. The power supply adapter comprising a casing, a power supply unit (PSU) connector comprising a socket configured of receive an edge connector of a PSU, an output connector configured to receive a first connector of a power cable and comprising connector pins, wherein the PSU connector comprises a ground conductor ...