US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 2 for "Serviceable peripheral connection device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,117, issued on June 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Serviceable peripheral connection device" was invented by Adam Kristopher Spiegelman (The Hills, Texas) and Shane Gerrard Kavanagh (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a body including a channel therein, wherein the channel includes a longitudinal component and a lateral component transverse to the longitudinal component and at least a portion of the channel is diagonal to a longitudinal direction. A device may include a frame with rails to receive the body and allow longitudinal movement of the body relative to ...