US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 3 for "Systems and methods for improving safety on electronic device connections" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,890, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for improving safety on electronic device connections" was invented by Lawrence Dale Cannon (Bothell, Wash.), Michele Falcon (Redmond, Wash.), John Joseph Siegler (Carnation, Wash.), Shaun L. Harris (Redmond, Wash.) and Brandon Aaron Rubenstein (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector for transmitting electrical power includes at least one power pin with an ablative tip. The power pin has a body oriented in a direction of a longitudinal axis, and the ablative tip is at a terminal end along the...