US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 27 for "Method to multi-source PD controllers for USB4 solutions and systems" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,421, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method to multi-source PD controllers for USB4 solutions and systems" was invented by Tomer Savariego (Lavon, Israel), Richard S. Perry (Portland, Ore.), Oren Huber (Nes Ammim, Israel) and Venkataramani Gopalakrishnan (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel method and interface are provided to generalize power delivery (PD) solutions and allow OEMs and suppliers to easily replace PD solutions using the same design and layout without having to re-spin the motherboard. This is achieved by defining a new interface and ball-out which support dual p...