ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,693, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enabling universal core motherboard with flexible input-output ports" was invented by Shailendra Singh Chauhan (Bangalore, India), Nirmala Bailur (Bangalore, India), Reza M. Zamani (Hillsboro, Ore.), Jackson Chung Peng Kong (Penang, Malaysia), Charuhasini Sunder Raman (Bangalore, India), Venkataramani Gopalakrishnan (Folsom, Calif.), Chuen Ming Tan (Penang, Malaysia), Sreejith Satheesakurup (Cherthala, India), Karthi Kaliswamy (Bangalore, India), Venkata Mahesh Gunnam (Bangalore, India), Yi Jen Huang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Kie Woon Lim (Penang, Malaysia), Dhinesh Sasidaran (Penang, Malaysia), Pik Shen C...