ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,606, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Computing device assembly with plurality of horizontal and vertical cable backplanes" was invented by Jason David Adrian (Woodinville, Wash.), Laurent Andrew Regimbal (Georgetown, Texas) and David William Mayer (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device assembly is provided, including a rack, and a plurality of compute units that are horizontally oriented and mounted within the rack in one of two vertical stacks. The computing device assembly further includes a plurality of switches that are vertically oriented an...