ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,573, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Add-in-card for an information handling system" was invented by Steven Michael Christensen (Austin, Texas), Keith Jay Lambright (Round Rock, Texas) and Yimin Xiao (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system, including: a printed circuit board (PCB) including: a storage device connector, a first sideband connector, and an add-in-card (AIC), including: a paddle board connector, a paddle board coupled to the paddle board connector; an expansion slot; and a second sideband connector, wherein when the paddle board is coupled to th...