ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,111, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Fastening system for coupling a computing module to a printed circuit board" was invented by Tung-Yi Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Kang-Wei Fan (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Jing-Tang Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastening system, including a fastener including a threaded portion positioned on an outer surface of the fastener; a protrusion positioned on an outer surface of the fastener, the protrusion including a first angled surface; and an engagement surface; a nut corresponding to the fastener, including a threaded portion positioned on an...