US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 9 for "Dual interface device with a single M.2 socket" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,573, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dual interface device with a single M.2 socket" was invented by Cheow F. Yeo (San Jose, Calif.), Reza Moazeni (San Jose, Calif.), Nishant P. Sabadra (Milpitas, Calif.), Theodore A. Carper (San Jose, Calif.) and Julio C. Fuentes (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The interface devices and platforms described herein provide an M.2 specification interface for multiple types of external devices using a single host connector or socket. The devices determines, from a received voltage level, a device type for an external device connected to a host...