US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 11 for "I/O device connector with internal cable connections" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,405, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"I/O device connector with internal cable connections" was invented by Xiang Li (Portland, Ore.), Anthony M. Constantine (Portland, Ore.) and Jingbo Li (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a rigid housing, a first connector coupled to the housing, the first connector to receive an edge connector of an input/output (I/O) device, and a second connector coupled to the housing, the second connector to couple to an edge connector socket. Pairs of electrical connection pins of the first connector are coupled to respective pairs of ele...