ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,388, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PROMISE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
"Swappable device and data processing system including such swappable device" was invented by Shiang-Jiann Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Pin-Hsin Kao (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chung-Shin Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swappable device includes a first side cover, a lever, a sliding plate, a functional module interface card and a second side cover. When the lever is rotated to move a guide pillar of the lever to a lower end point of an arc-shaped guide groove of the first side cover, a guide pillar of the sliding ...