Liqid Assigned Patent

Liqid Inc., Broomfield, CO, has been assigned a patent (10,255,215) developed by Breakstone, Jason, Broomfield, CO, Rust, Brenden Michael, Loveland, CO, Long, Christopher R., Colorado Springs, CO, Heyd, Andrew Rudolph, Longmont, CO, Puri, Sumit, Calabasas, CA, Schramm, Bryan, Lafayette, CO, and Walsh, Seth, Superior, CO, for an “enhanced PCIe storage device form factors.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Enhanced data storage devices in various form factors are discussed herein. In one example, a storage drive includes a plurality of storage devices configured to store and retrieve data responsive to operations received over Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, (PCIe) interfaces, a PCIe switch circuit communicatively coupled to the PCIe interfaces of the storage devices and configured to receive over a host connector the operations issued by a host system and transfer the storage operations for ones of the storage devices over associated ones of the PCIe interfaces. The storage drive includes holdup circuitry configured to provide holdup power the storage devices. The storage drive includes a first circuit board assembly comprising three storage device connectors that couple to corresponding storage devices, and a second circuit board assembly comprising a further storage device connector that couples to a further storage device.”

The patent application was filed on January 27, 2017 (15/418,094).