US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus for adjustable depth of a module within a chassis" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,771, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Apparatus for adjustable depth of a module within a chassis" was invented by Kevin Warren Mundt (Livingston, Texas) and Stephen Edward Strickland (Foxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including: a chassis, including a track; a midplane assembly, including: a connector; and locking mechanisms, wherein the midplane is coupled to the chassis; wherein when a first pluggable module is coupled to the connector of the midplane assembly, first rails of the first pluggable module are engaged with the track of the chassis and the locking me...