ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,470, issued on March 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Power sharing by multiple expansion cards" was invented by Vishal Narayanan (Bengaluru, India) and Anil Baby (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first printed circuit board (PCB) comprises a first hardware interface, compatible with an interface standard, to couple the first PCB to a first socket of a second PCB, which further comprises a second socket, and first and second busses respectively coupled to the first and second sockets. The first PCB comprises a second hardware interface to communicate a first signal, to indicate a total current d...