G06F 1/186
Securing of expansion boards in correspondence to slots provided at the computer
Official title: Securing of expansion boards in correspondence to slots provided at the computer enclosure
G06F1/186 (Securing of expansion boards in correspondence to slots provided at the computer) appears on 911 US grants and 752 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 21 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Server chassis and server15 Sep 2026US 12,740,002 B2Wistron Corporation
- Racked GPU system8 Sep 2026US 12,730,486 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Modular embedded chassis with firmware for removably coupled compute devices, and methods and systems for the same25 Aug 2026US 12,717,923 B1Management Services Group, Inc.
- Multi-row pluggable high-radix modules11 Aug 2026US 12,704,887 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Locking mechanism for liquid cooled pluggable modules11 Aug 2026US 12,707,583 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Computer Case8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310266 A1Minilith LLC
- Multiple drive assembly for a server rack8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313821 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Patch panel for reconfigurable network topologies1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304678 A1
- Hard disk drive holding device, method for mounting a hard disk drive to the same, and method for disassembling a hard disk drive from the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277282 A1Jabi Circuit (Singapore) Pte, Ltd.
- Bracket assembly for expansion card13 Aug 2026US 2026/0239554 A1Aivres Systems Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Foldable electronic assembly module210US 5,224,023 A1993
- Connector device having two storage decks and three contact arrays for one hard disk drive package or two memory cards208US 5,299,089 AE. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company · 1994
- Computer system modular add-in daughter card for an adapter card which also functions as an independent add-in card165US 5,611,057 ADell USA, L. P. · 1997
- High-density computer module with stacked parallel-plane packaging165US 6,222,739 B1Viking Components · 2001
- Method and apparatus for automatic initialization of pluggable option cards159US 5,491,804 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996