US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on March 18 for "Detection of displayport alternate mode communication and connector plug orientation without use of a power distribution controller" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,965, issued on March 18, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Detection of displayport alternate mode communication and connector plug orientation without use of a power distribution controller" was invented by Mark Edward Wentroble (Plano, Texas), Suzanne Mary Vining (Plano, Texas) and Hassan Omar Ali (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure generally relates to USB TYPE-C, and, in particular, DISPLAYPORT Alternate Mode communication in a USB TYPE-C environment. In one embodiment, a device determines a DISPLAYPORT mode and determines an orientation of a USB TYPE-C connector plug. A multiplexer mult...