ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,205, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"System architecture for supporting active pass-through board for multi-mode NMVE over fabrics devices" was invented by Sompong Paul Olarig (Pleasanton, Calif.), Fred Worley (San Jose, Calif.) and Son Pham (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rack-mounted system includes a chassis, a switchless board disposed in the chassis, a midplane, and a plurality of device ports. The switchless board includes a baseboard management controller (BMC), a network repeater configured to transport network signals, and a PCIe switch configured ...