US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 9 for "Avoiding damage to universal serial bus sink switch device" (Indian, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,341, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Avoiding damage to universal serial bus sink switch device" was invented by Shailendra Singh Chauhan (Bangalore, India), Venkata Mahesh Gunnam (Yeditha, India), Venkataramana Kotakonda (Bangalore, India) and Chuen Ming Tan (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to avoiding damage to a transistor in a power-sinking device that receives power from an external power source via a Universal Serial Bus port. In one aspect, a controller of the device sets a current limit to a reduced level during a wait period after the externa...