US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 10 for "Systems and methods for detecting misshapen receptacle connector" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,957, issued on June 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for detecting misshapen receptacle connector" was invented by Shree Rathinasamy (Round Rock, Texas), Elizabeth Raymond (Austin, Texas) and Jonathan F. Lewis (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receptacle connector may include a receptacle for receiving a corresponding edge connector of a device, a plurality of electrically-conductive pins configured to electrically couple to associated pins of the corresponding edge connector when the receptacle connector is populated with the device, an optical transmitter at a first en...