ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,336, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system folio stylus garage power management" was invented by Li Min Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yaotsung Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chen Hsin Chang (Keelung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system stores a stylus in a stylus garage having a stylus presence detection so that on removal of the stylus from the garage the information handling system transitions from a low power state to an on state. In one example embodiment, a low power OR gate monitors a pair of contacts of the stylus to initiate power to ...