US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 11 for "Power management for Universal Serial Bus (USB) type-C port" (American, Taiwanese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,790, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Power management for Universal Serial Bus (USB) type-C port" was invented by Venkataramani Gopalakrishnan (Folsom, Calif.), Ravishankar S. (Bangalore, India), Yaniv Hayat (Folsom, Calif.) and Yi Jen Huang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management scheme for USB systems. For Mobile systems that has re-timer, a handshake is used between power delivery (PD) controller, re-timer and embedded controller (EC) so that the PD controller can end higher wattage power contract on USB-C connector after TBT/USB4 link is in low power (CLd/U3) and...