ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,087, issued on May 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Board-level architecture and communications device" was invented by Jianxin Fan (Beijing), Guodong Zhang (Dongguan, China), Jian Zhang (Dongguan, China) and Zhefeng Xiao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A board-level architecture and a communications device are disclosed. The board-level architecture includes a support board, a switch board, and a press fit component. The press fit component includes a cable, a first connector component press-fitted on a side edge of the support board, and a second press fit cable connector press-fit...