ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,170, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Modular riser card for an electronic device" was invented by Kuan-Wei Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Vincent Nguyen (Houston), Ku-Hsu Nien (Taipei, Taiwan), Jui Lin Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsueh Yu Chao (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular riser card, an electronic device having a modular riser card, and a method of determining a type of modular riser card pin connection are disclosed. The modular riser card includes a circuit board and a removable connector assembly. The circuit board includes a first receptacle having a p...