ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,396, issued on March 25, was assigned to ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Circuit board for inserting expansion card" was invented by Po-Ting Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Chang-Hung Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Hung Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit board is for inserting an expansion card with a positioning part. The circuit board includes a board body, a slot, a release assembly, and a transmission mechanism. The release assembly includes a release body, a blocking member, and an elastic member connected between the release body and the blocking member. The release body includes a blocking part fo...