ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,427, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Hybrid faceplate for computing systems" was invented by Warren A. Kartadinata (Fremont, Calif.), Robert E. Cayou (Tracy, Calif.) and Harold Zin Htutt (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect described in the present disclosure provides a faceplate for a computing system. The faceplate includes a die-cast metallic frame and a sheet-metal front face attached to the die cast metallic frame. The die-cast metallic frame includes at least one attachment mechanism protruding beyond the sheet-metal front face for attaching ...