US Patent Issued to Phoenix Infrustructure on Jan. 20 for "Automated access to racks in a colocation data center" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,857, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Phoenix Infrustructure LLC (Coppell, Texas).

"Automated access to racks in a colocation data center" was invented by Jason Anthony Lochhead (Frisco, Texas), Manikandan Subramanian (Flower Mound, Texas), David Hess (Arlington, Texas), Michael Andra Ballard (Coppell, Texas) and Adam Scott Wayne (Keller, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Top-of-rack (TOR) switches are connected to a network fabric of a data center. Each TOR switch corresponds to a rack of the data center, and is configured to provide access to the network fabric for computing devices mounted in the rack. In one method, a TOR sw...