ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,607, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Rack wall for housing battery backup units" was invented by Noah Thomas Kelly (Cascade, Colo.), Darin Lee Frink (Lake Tapps, Wash.), William Mark Megarity (Bonney Lake, Wash.), Bradley David Urban (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Zhihong Ye (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a rack that may include a frame arranged to form boundaries of an internal volume sized for receipt of a server, power shelf, and/or other sliding chassis into the rack. At least one sidewall may be incorporated into the frame along a lateral side and includ...