ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,225, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Memory module guidance and retention structure" was invented by Nathan Lee Dunfee (Rochester, Minn.), Kevin O'Connell (Mantorville, Minn.), Christopher M. Marroquin (Rochester, Minn.), Stephen P. Mroz (Rochester, Minn.), Mark David Pfeifer (Owatonna, Minn.), Kenneth E. Lubahn (Oronoco, Minn.) and Justin Christopher Rogers (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for guidance and retention of integrated circuit boards includes a first structure configured to receive a first integrated circuit board and guide the first in...