ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,826, issued on June 10.
"Hot-swappable structure of connector and method thereof" was invented by Hsien-Rong Liang (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-swappable structure of a connector and a method thereof are provided. When a swapping device is plugged into PCIe, a swapping detection module detects the swapping operation and a recognition module reads an electrical signal of the plugging of the swapping device to be compared with positive/negative trigger data of a chip database by means of a comparison module. If the comparison is matched, a privilege control module issues a control signal including delay inte...