ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,114, issued on June 30, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Cable for routing signals in a system lacking a backplane" was invented by P. Daniel Kangas (Raleigh, N.C.), Jean J. Xu (Cary, N.C.), Alan L. Painter (Apex, N.C.) and James Michael Dupuy (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method for signal routing in a system lacking a backplane. One apparatus includes an interface card and a cable having a first connector configured to couple with a storage drive via the interface card, a second connector configured to couple with a motherboard, and a third connector configured to cou...