ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,502, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Three-pin connector for solar accessory" was invented by Rajesh Reddy Nandyala (Cambridge, Great Britain), Chuenyi Yin (Whittier, Calif.), Hao-Ren Wang (Yilan County, Taiwan), Ming-Chang Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Wang-Jie Luo (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yung-Hsiang Liu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-pin power connector for a solar accessory is described. In some examples, the power connector has three pins that can be used for identifying a proper solar accessory for an electronic device. In one particular example, a power connector apparatus inclu...