US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on May 27 for "Selective connection of controllers to a single-ported input/output device" (California, Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,603, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Selective connection of controllers to a single-ported input/output device" was invented by Ayman Abouelwafa (Folsom, Calif.), James David Preston (Houston) and Christopher David Thompson (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an apparatus includes an extender with a first connector to a single-ported input/output (I/O) device, and a second connector to a connection plane connected to a plurality of controllers. The extender includes a multiplexer to selectively connect different controllers of the plu...