US Patent Issued to Intel on July 8 for "Hardware connector pin reduction for expansion slot interfaces" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,342, issued on July 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hardware connector pin reduction for expansion slot interfaces" was invented by Mythili Hegde (Bangalore, India), Aneesh R (Tamilnadu, India) and Ricardo Velasco (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The proposed techniques enable dynamic hardware and software (HW/SW) configurations to enable an expansion card to be adapted for use in various original equipment manufacturer (OEM) devices. The techniques use a software-based solution to detect device modes, states, etc. of a device in which the expansion card is implemented by leveraging the device's ...