ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,554, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Moxa Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Backplane slot detection method and backplane slot detection system for applying a scalable backplane array" was invented by Sheng-Hung Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backplane slot detection method includes providing a detection module and a first communication interface, wherein the first communication interface is configured to transfer data between the detection module and a first backplane, transmitting a first detection packet from the detection module via the first communication interface, receiving a first received packet by th...