Celestica Assigned Patent

Celestica International, Toronto, Canada, has been assigned a patent (8,554,975) developed by Clarke David Barnes, Austin, TX, and Alonzo Ramirez, Manchester, NH, for a “mass storage device and mass storage assembly.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “There is disclosed a mass storage device (such as a HDD drive) comprising an input connector for electrically receiving both a first set of data signals and a second set of data signals. The first set of data signals are used to store or retrieve information on the mass storage device, whereas the second set of data signals are electrically conducted to an output connector on the mass storage device. When an adjacent mass storage device is connected to the output connector, the second set of data signals are used to store or retrieve information on this adjacent mass storage device.”

The patent application was filed on June 23, 2010 (12/822,003).