Facebook Assigned Patent

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,448,599) developed by Ehlen, Jon Brian, Newark, CA, Iyengar, Madhusudan Krishnan, Foster City, CA, and Adrian, Jason David, San Jose, CA, for a “high-density storage server chassis.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Technology is provided for a high-density storage server chassis. The storage server chassis comprises a frame and an opposed pair of support ledges disposed in the frame and positioned to support a storage device therebetween. The support ledges are disposed on corresponding partitions mounted in the frame. The support ledges include at least one protrusion positioned to space the storage device away from the support ledge thereby defining an air flow region between the storage device and the support ledge. The storage server chassis further comprises a retainer moveably attached to a corresponding partition and operative to retain a corresponding storage device in the frame, wherein the retainer is movable between an open position and a closed position.“

The patent application was filed on April 9, 2014 (14/248,947).