Apple granted patent for a ‘reduced size multi-pin connector,’ namedrops USB 3.0 and DisplayPort

Apple has just collected the usa Patent Office’s approval so as to add another to its vast hoard of patents . This one, numero 7,918,689 within the USPTO annals, describes a multi-pin male plug connector and a corresponding female receptacle, with the innovation being a discount in size due to a single row of contacts. You are able to recall to mind it as Apple’s next generation of 30-pin connectors, or rather the following generation because the company envisioned it back in late 2008, the date of filing for this document. Back then, while the age of the press wheel was still upon us, Apple desired to transfer USB 3.0 and DisplayPort signals over its newfangled plug, aspirations that were codified in claim 11 of its patent. We may now be an exceptional 30 or so months far from that doc hitting the Patent Office’s inbox, however the want to have advanced data transfer tech integrated straight into the corporate’s proprietary connectors is unlikely to have withered. Wouldn’t it be a stretch to expect Apple’s now engaged on the same solution for the Thunderbolt interconnect — whose plug looks a dead ringer for the only used for DisplayPort — that’s presently gracing its MacBook Pro line?

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