ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,301, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Isolated floor locking mechanism for modular data centers" was invented by Tyler Baxter Duncan (Austin, Texas), Anthony Middleton (Cedar Park, Texas) and Ty Robert Schmitt (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular information technology component (MITC) includes: a floor, in which the floor comprises a first floor plate (FP) and a second FP, in which the first FP and the second FP are oriented in a first plane; and a first hydraulic pump (HP) and a second HP, in which the first HP is located underneath the first FP, in which the second ...