ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,118, issued on May 27, was assigned to Shenzhen Fulian Fugui Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Circuit preventing supply of power to board incorrectly or unstably installed, method, and server system" was invented by Zhi-Yu Deng (Shenzhen, China), Li-Wen Guo (Shenzhen, China) and Wen-Xiao Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A board mis-insertion prevention circuit includes a first detection circuit, a second detection circuit, and a control module. The first detection circuit detects whether a board is in a first state and outputs a first detection signal when the board is in the first state. The second d...