ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,686, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Thermal protection of computer peripheral cables" was invented by Wen-Bin Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Chao-Wen Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Cheng-Yi Yang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Wei Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is directed to a computing device for detecting and preventing melting of a component of the computing device. In some examples, the computing device includes a cable that connects a power supply unit and an add-on card, and a thermal protection controller. Based on a sensor signal from a temperat...