ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,918, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory module connector for thin computing systems" was invented by Navneet Kumar Singh (Bangalore, India), Aiswarya M. Pious (Bengaluru, India), Richard S. Perry (Portland, Ore.), Amarjeet Kumar (Bangalore, India), Siva Prasad Jangili Ganga (Bengaluru, India), Gaurav Hada (Bangalore, India), Sushil Padmanabhan (Thrissur, India) and Konika Ganguly (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector to connect an electronic module to an edge of a first electronic circuit board is described. The module has a second electronic circuit board. The connector ...