ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,763, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Component caddies" was invented by Ming-Shan Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Shih-Tun Yu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsin-Tso Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a component caddy may include a bracket to receive a computing component; a ground portion disposed on a first end of the bracket to electrically engage with a ground pad; and a connector lock disposed on the ground portion. The connector lock may vertically attach the component caddy to a vertically-oriented connector disposed adjacent to the ground pad on a syste...