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Microsoft has a long history of creating new products category, and the company has already patented some innovative projects, like dual-screen and hinge tech for Andromeda.

A report earlier this month revealed that Microsoft will adopt the USB-C tech again, and the future Surface lineup might soon come with USB-C.

A new patent published on June, 21 suggests that the Redmond-based tech giant Microsoft is working on devices with USB Type C, and it will be thinner than the devices with traditional USB output. This makes sense given that USB-C is becoming a more widely-used standard, and interestingly, Microsoft has improved the design of USB-C port in order to make its devices thinner.

The patent titled “ULTRA-THIN USB-C CONNECTOR” explains how the devices with this new UBS-C connector could get thinner. This would be particularly useful in the case of the rumored Microsoft’s affordable Surface tablets which the company is reportedly preparing for the summer launch.



It appears that such a device with the improved USB-C connector would look thin

“The USB-C connector includes a single, seamless, continuous, thin housing protecting a wire termination and contacts within the housing. The housing has a uniform thickness along the entire length of the housing,” the company explains in a patent filing.

“The housing may provide strain relief to the cable and an aesthetically pleasing USB-C connector. The connector may include an overmold residing inside the housing and over the wire termination and contacts,” Microsoft explains.

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