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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2015
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
InHwan Oh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Marco Soldano, San Jose, CA (US);
Nicholas A. Sims, Cupertino, CA (US);
Manisha P. Pandya, Saratoga, CA (US);
Bogdan T. Bucheru, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/20 (2006.01); H02H 9/04 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic device has an I/O port, a bus connector and a transistor that is connected between the I/O port and a communications contact of the bus connector. A control circuit is connected to the transistor to maintain a gate voltage of the transistor independent of power supply voltage on a power supply contact of the connector. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.