ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,790, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamic input/output support for portable information handling systems" was invented by Tao-Peng Chu (Zhongshan, Taiwan), Chen-Hsin Chang (Keelung, Taiwan), Shao-Hung Yu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yi-Chung Chu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system detects whether the system is in a 360-degree orientation, and detects whether the system is in the desktop mode. In response to determining that the system is in the 360-degree orientation, that the system is in the desktop mode, and that an external display device is co...