US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 20 for "Disconnect detection circuitry for universal serial bus (USB) compliant electronic devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,408, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Disconnect detection circuitry for universal serial bus (USB) compliant electronic devices" was invented by Christine M. Krause (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses can detect whether an electrical cable between a source device and a sink device has become disconnected. The source device and/or the sink device can be compliant with a version of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard, for example, USB 3.x. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can monitor peak voltage swings of data signals flowing between the sour...