ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,913, issued on June 9, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).
"Storage drive activity monitor" was invented by James Michael Dupuy (Cary, N.C.), Omar Ali (Cary, N.C.), P. Daniel Kangas (Raleigh, N.C.) and Jean J. Xu (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method for outputting status information of an internal storage drive. One apparatus includes a mounting tray configured to hold a storage drive, a light pipe coupled to a light-emitting diode (LED) of the storage drive, and a light sensing module coupled to the light pipe. The light sensing module is configured to receive a ligh...