ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,471, issued on March 25, was assigned to Liqid Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).
"Dual-sided expansion card with offset slot alignment" was invented by Andrew Rudolph Heyd (Longmont, Colo.), Brenden M. Rust (Loveland, Colo.), Christopher R. Long (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Sumit Puri (Calabasas, Calif.) and Bryan Schramm (Broomfield, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage card insertable into a peripheral slot of host system is provided that houses storage devices on both sides of the data storage card. A heat sink member establishes a skewed offset stackup among a primary circuit board and a secondary circuit board, and a circ...