ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,442, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Device for automatically detecting coupling between electronic devices" was invented by Jacques Rocher (Toulouse, France) and Yannick Leroy (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically detecting a sensor coupled to an electronic computer including steps of detecting the sensor and steps of configuring a hardware interface."

The patent was filed on June 16, 2021, under Application No. 18/013,415.

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