US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Devices and methods for providing port matching features for USB-C cables and ports" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,070, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for providing port matching features for USB-C cables and ports" was invented by Matthew Bennion (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Sterzick (Torrance, Calif.), Sean Cheng (Union City, Calif.), Adrian Karaan (Fremont, Calif.), David Mahan (San Jose, Calif.), Alfonso Calderon (Redwood City, Calif.), Jeff Chen (Irvine, Calif.) and David Bagaoisan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing port matching features for storage devices and cables. In certain embodiments, a data storage device...