US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 20 for "Automatic remote latching solution for PCB modules" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,406, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic remote latching solution for PCB modules" was invented by Daniel Ruiz (Cold Spring, N.Y.), Joseph Scaglione (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Ryan Elsasser (Salt Point, N.Y.) and Schuyler Mann (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatically engaging and disengaging PCB modules with computing systems includes: receiving, from a computing system and by a printed circuit board (PCB) module, an instruction to disengage the PCB module from the computing system, where the PCB module is coupled to the computing system via a PCB conn...