ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,769, issued on May 6, was assigned to Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co. LTD. (Tianjin, China).

"Fixture for fixing structures with expansion cards, and electronic equipment" was invented by San-Long Zhou (Tianjin, China), Yang Li (Tianjin, China), Gong-Wen Zhang (Tianjin, China) and Jun Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixture and electronic equipment for rapid assembly and disassembly of expansion cards. The fixture comprises a holder, a bracket, a first connector, and a second connector. The holder is configured to fix the expansion card. The first connector is positioned on the holder. A first slot is ...