ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,045, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Vertiv Corp. (Westerville, Ohio).

"Seismic supports" was invented by Utkarsh Diliprao Charapale (Kolhapur, India), Srinivasan Natarajan (Erode, India) and Jin Elkins (Auburn, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cabinet can include a body for housing electronic equipment, a plurality of legs extending downwardly from the body, with each leg secured to a different bottom corner of the body, a plurality of balls, each ball secured to one of the legs, and a plurality of support cups configured to be secured to a support surface."

The patent was filed on Sept. 4, 2024, under Application No. 18/82...