To prevent users from having problems disconnecting peripherals from Macs, Apple would be working on a new technology that would allow these devices to send automatic eject commands to the operating system as quickly as possible. The process for applying this feature is described in a new company patent, filed last year and published today by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Her objective is to solve an error still made by many people, which is to physically remove a device without first having the system disassemble it from the machine, that is, to apply a series of operations that terminate the operation of its input and output controllers. close any logical connection to the computer. Important data can be lost in this oversight, which is why Apple took the initiative to think of a way to make this process independent of the user.
Basically, it would consist of sensors that would be implanted in the devices to alert the system when a user was about to remove them. This would not explicitly depend on a touch on the peripheral; such sensors would also be able to send the command when the user's fingers get too close to it, which is interesting considering that the process of ejecting something from a computer can take more time than just touching it.
Created by Brett Alten, current patent director at Apple, this technology would be used in several models of USB storage devices, memory cards and several other categories of accessories.
(Via: MacRumors.)