US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Sept. 30 for "Apparatus to prevent physical adjustment of a knob of a field-replaceable unit (FRU)" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,869, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Apparatus to prevent physical adjustment of a knob of a field-replaceable unit (FRU)" was invented by Senthil Kumar Ramaswamy Venkat (Karnataka, India) and Raveen Jagadeesan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field-replaceable unit (FRU) includes an ejector component that is to facilitate removal of the FRU from a network system chassis, a knob that is connected to the ejector component, and a knob adjustment prevention apparatus. The knob adjustment prevention apparatus includes a mounting component and a guard component. The mounti...