ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,537, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"USB-C wireless wide area network dongle" was invented by Arvind Sundaram (Bangalore, India), Santhosh Ap (Bangalore, India), Shailendra Singh Chauhan (Bengaluru, India), Nagalakshmi Shashidhara Guptha (Bangalore, India), Nirmala Bailur (Bangalore, India) and Mythili Hegde (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include Universal Serial Bus Type C (USB-C) connection circuitry. The apparatus can also include input/output (I/O) circuitry coupled to the USB-C connection circuitry. The I/O circuitry can receive a power signal over the USB-C...