ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,544, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Retractable pivoting trap door" was invented by Eric Lotter (Gilroy, Calif.), Aditya Prabhakar (San Mateo, Calif.) and Paula Zubiri Rivero (East Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server door assembly including at least one side mounting panel, a pivoting door disposed coupled to the at least one side mounting panel, wherein the pivoting door includes a first door component coupled to a pivot point of the side mounting panel, and a second door component configured to slide along the first component as the first component pivots about the p...