US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 5 for "Information handling system with a switch circuit to perform as a dock" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,037, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system with a switch circuit to perform as a dock" was invented by Qinghong He (Austin, Texas) and Arnold Thomas Schnell (Hutto, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes dock and compute portions. The dock portion communicates with a peripheral device. The compute portion includes an external communication port and a processor. The processor determines whether an external information handling system is connected to the external communication port. In response to the external information handling system...