US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for detection of presence of non-electrical component" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,566, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for detection of presence of non-electrical component" was invented by Arnold Thomas Schnell (Hutto, Texas), Adedoyin Oluwaseun Odesola (Georgetown, Texas) and Sofia Loya (El Paso, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a circuit board comprising a inductor coil formed in a circuit board around a hole formed through the circuit board and a presence detection subsystem configured to measure an electrical quantity occurring within the inductor coil responsive to an alternating current driven to the inductor coil and det...