ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,014, issued on April 15, was assigned to PEGATRON Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Motherboard" was invented by Pei-Chun Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Han-Sheng Peng (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motherboard includes a connector, a controller, a platform controller hub and a switch block. The connector is configured to be electrically connected to an expansion card, and includes a first pin, a second pin and a third pin. The controller includes an analog-to-digital converter coupled to the first pin. The controller identifies a digital voltage value of the first pin via the analog-to-digital converter, and generates a power supp...