ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,545, issued on July 14, was assigned to LENOVO ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Front input/output (I/O) expansion module for a computing device" was invented by Michael Dudley French Jr. (Morrisville, N.C.), Bradley Paul Antczak (Morrisville, N.C.), Nathan Okenna Onyejiaka (Morrisville, N.C.) and Paul Spence Sawyer (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input/output (I/O) expansion module includes a first substrate, and an expansion slot disposed on the first substrate. The expansion slot is configured to be communicatively coupled to a backplane slot disposed on a backplane of a computing devic...