US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on April 15 for "Port-sharing subsystems for computing devices" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,086, issued on April 15, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Port-sharing subsystems for computing devices" was invented by Michael Robustelli (Smithtown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes: a housing defining an exterior of the computing device; a controller supported within the housing; a first communication port disposed on the exterior; a second communication port disposed on the exterior; a port-sharing subsystem supported within the housing, having (i) a first state to connect the controller with the first communication port, exclusive of the second communication port, and...