ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,133, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data center and expansion method" was invented by Yonghui Peng (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data center and an expansion method are provided to avoid a phenomenon of dense cables during data center expansion. In the data center, a first power device is connected to a computing device by using a bus, and a plug-in node and an idle electrical connection end are pre-disposed on the bus. In this way, when expansion is required, a second power device for expansion is directly added to the idle electrical connection e...