ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,353, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Systems, devices, and methods for connectors" was invented by Albrecht Mayer (Deisenhofen, Germany) and Patrik Eder (Taufkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit is disclosed having one or more circuits, a connector portion coupled to the one or more circuits, and comprising a plurality of pins. When the connector portion is coupled with a first connector in a first orientation, the one or more circuits are configured to operate in a first state, and when the connector portion is coupled with the first connector in a second orie...