ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,691, issued on May 19, was assigned to ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Expansion card assembly and connector" was invented by Chao Xu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Wenqiao Yin (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yuan-Yu Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expansion card assembly, including an expansion card body and a connector. The expansion card body includes a notch recessed into an edge thereof. The connector includes a housing. The housing includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and an engaging portion disposed on the bottom surface. The bottom surface is close to the expansion card body. The engaging portio...