ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,423, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Latching with drawer movement in computing system assemblies" was invented by Aaron Michael Brown (Washington), Justin Knowles (Arlington, Va.), John Chung King Kan (Arlington, Va.) and William Mark Megarity (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system assembly can include a drawer defining an interior volume sized for holding a computing appliance. The drawer can be slidable between a deployed state and a stowed state relative to a rack-mountable chassis slidably receivable in a rack. A drawer latch coupled with the drawer's exterior can...