ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,830, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Method of plugging a pluggable processor into a PCBA" was invented by Houle Gan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Richard Stuart Roy (Mountain View, Calif.), Yujeong Shim (Cupertino, Calif.), William F. Edwards Jr. (Livermore, Calif.) and Chenhao Nan (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes forming a module aperture in a printed circuit board assembly ("PCBA"), forming an electronic communication interface extending around the module aperture, and plugging a pluggable processor module into the module aperture, the pluggable processor module...