US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 9 for "Detecting motherboard power switch defects and LCD cable shorts" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,069, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Detecting motherboard power switch defects and LCD cable shorts" was invented by Chin-Jui Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Isaac Q. Wang (Austin, Texas) and Ling-Feng Jian (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power switch includes an OC detection circuit, a UV detection circuit, and an OC indication circuit. The OC detection circuit detects an over-current in the power switch, provides an OC flag in a first state when no over-current is detected, and provides the OC flag in a second state when the over-current is detected. The UV detection circuit detects ...