ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,311, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system with retractable input/output port component" was invented by Owen Kidd (Cedar Park, Texas) and Walter R. Carver (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retractable input/output port component for a server type information handling system. The retractable input/output component includes a housing, the housing having a front facet and a side facet, the housing being configured to be retracted into a volume of the server type information handling system; an ever present feature port, the ever present feature port being...