Leidos Assigned Patent

Leidos, Inc., Reston, VA, has been assigned a patent (9,978,418) developed by Estell, Timothy William, Ellicott City, MD, Clark, Bruce Allen, Eldersburg, MD, Riggins, Littleton Kent, Silver Spring, MD, Cade, Jeffrey Errol, Elkridge, MD, Cox, Ronald Franklin, Millersville, MD, and Sutton, Jr., Martin William, Brooklyn Park, MD, for a “system and method for automated hardware compatibility testing.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for automating testing of multiple SATA hard drives with multiple motherboards are described herein. In certain embodiments any number of SATA drives may be switchably connected to any number of motherboards, and any number of tests may be performed on combinations of the SATA drives and motherboards without or with only minimal manual intervention between tests. In one embodiment, the system may include an automated selector having a controller adapted to receive a testing instruction and transmit the received testing instruction and a mainboard in communication with the controller. The mainboard may include a logic device to receive the testing instruction from the controller and/or a switch for pairing and unpairing motherboards with SATA storage devices.”

The patent application was filed on October 19, 2015 (14/886,845).