ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,647, issued on Nov. 4.

"Triangular board assembly for solid state drive" was invented by John Hung (Vancouver, Canada), Andrew Morning-Smith (Vancouver, Canada), Kai-Uwe Schmidt (Vancouver, Canada), Paul Gwin (Orangevale, Calif.) and Nan Allison Yao (Regina, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an electronic apparatus comprises a main board, a wing board electrically coupled to the main board by a flexible connector along an edge of the main board, wherein the wing board is arranged at an angle that is non-parallel with respect to the main board. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed."

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