ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,230, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AMD Design LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Latch for retaining stacked expansion cards" was invented by Mahesh Kumar Varrey (Secaucus, N.J.), Chen An (Secaucus, N.J.) and James Dmitry Iofe (Secaucus, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch is provided for holding stacked expansion boards above a mother board that includes an auto-lock feature that triggers when an expansion board is installed and is reset when the board is removed. The latch includes a trigger arm above which a first latch slider and a second latch slider are stacked. Movement of the trigger arm caused by placement of an expansion...