ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,690, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for mechanical support in configurable systems" was invented by Corey Dean Hartman (Hutto, Texas) and Sanjiv Sinha (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing power distribution and/or mechanical load in data processing systems is provided. The power distribution may be managed using multifunction power buses that may relieve a motherboard of a data processing system from distributing power. The mechanical load may be managed using an adapter plate that may relieve the motherboard of the data processing ...