US Patent Issued to SUZHOU METABRAIN INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 6 for "Port configuration method, component, and hard disk expansion apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,743, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SUZHOU METABRAIN INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Port configuration method, component, and hard disk expansion apparatus" was invented by Quanquan Yu (Suzhou, China), Shuilun Fu (Suzhou, China) and Huanchao Wang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A port configuring method, an assembly and a hard-disk expanding device. The back-panel controller may, when the memory stores the port-configuration-topology type corresponding to a port configuring instruction, control an expanding chip to be powered off and subsequently powered on. After the expanding chip has been powered...