Today there are well over 10 billion USB devices in the world. The USB (Universal Serial Bus) remains just as relevant today as it was when it started appearing in the market in 1990s. While USB remains the most widely used gadget in the world, very little is known about the man who invented this revolutionary technology.

Meet Ajay Bhatt, the man who led the team that developed the Universal Serial Bus or generally known as USB. In short, he is the creator of the USB.

About 25 years ago, Ajay Bhatt, then an engineer with Intel, was trying to install a multimedia card into his computer and came up with the idea for a universal port for peripheral devices. Well, he had no clue that his idea will soon turn into the biggest technological invention after the silicon chip.

If rightly put, Bhatt is the computing world’s unofficial member of the Hall of Fame and is digitally immortal. He coined the idea of USB after realizing how difficult it was to connect different devices. For 6 long years, he lobbied his colleagues at Intel, trying hard to get the required brain power. The first USB arrived for sale during the late 1990s and proved to be an instant hit. Fast forward 25 years ahead, USB 3.0 is 400 times faster than its father and the coming versions can be 816 times as faster.

Bhatt graduated from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and earned his master’s degree from the City University of New York. He’s currently employed as the Chief Client Platform Architect at Intel. But as irony has it, he still remains a very lesser known personality when we talk about tech inventions despite having invented something as important as the USB.

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