ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,223, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Baffle structure" was invented by Wen-Ting Yu (Taipei, Taiwan), Kunsu Zhang (Taipei, Taiwan), Zhaowei Sheng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Feng Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baffle structure applied to be installed on a motherboard having multiple connection ports. The baffle structure includes a front plate having multiple through holes for accommodating the connection ports, two side plates, a top plate and a positioning component. The front plate has a first side adjacent to the motherboard, and a second side opposite to the first side....