US Patent Issued to Intel on May 12 for "Radio frequency communication via plug and receptacle arrangement" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,958, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Radio frequency communication via plug and receptacle arrangement" was invented by Bradley N. Saunders (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes: detecting, in a computing device, attachment of a surface connector to the computing device and discovering one or more operational characteristics of the surface connector via a wired configuration channel; configuring the connector to communicate with the computing device via at least one wireless channel based on the one or more operational characteristics; and communicatin...