ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,382, issued on July 21, was assigned to AMD Design LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Chassis sag and bow measurement system" was invented by JonCarlo DeFazio (Secaucus, N.J.), Atticus Bowie (Secaucus, N.J.) and Peter Alex Lescaille (Secaucus, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gantry is disclosed that mounts on rails within a server rack. The gantry provides for the stable and repeatable placement of a measurement probe that is oriented to determine the sag of a server by measuring the distances along the Z-axis from the probe to a server at different locations in a XY plane defined by the gantry."

The patent was filed on Jan. 30, 2024, u...