US Patent Issued to Triad National Security on Sept. 16 for "Automatic peripheral device disconnection" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,966, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Triad National Security LLC (Los Alamos, Texas).

"Automatic peripheral device disconnection" was invented by Conrad Jackson Farnsworth (Los Alamos, N.M.), Charles H. Mielke (Los Alamos, N.M.), Remington Stanley Bullis (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Robert M. Broilo (Los Alamos, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide for automatic disconnection of a peripheral device when a power consumption level of the peripheral device drops below a power consumption cutoff threshold, signifying that the peripheral device is no longer active. In embodiments, an example automatic peripheral device d...