Echostreams Innovative Solutions Assigned Patent

Echostreams Innovative Solutions, LLC, City of Industry, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,520,159) developed by Lee, Gene Jingluen, Arcadia, CA, Lee, Cheng-Chu, West Covina, CA, Chu, Chang-Feng, Taoyuan, Taiwan, and Chen, I-Chen, Longtan Township, Taiwan, for a “apparatus for storing solid state drives or hard disk drives .“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An apparatus includes a container having a base for receiving a drive, and a clam having a first end that is rotatably coupled to the base, a second end, and a body extending from the first end to the second end, the clam rotatable relative to the base so that the clam can be placed at a first position and a second position, wherein when the clam is at the first position, the container allows the drive to be placed therein, and wherein when the clam is at the second position, the clam secures the drive relative to the container. A frame includes at least sixteen slots to receive respective drive storage devices, which store respective SFF8201 7 mm drives, in EIA RS310D 1U space. A frame includes at least forty-eight slots to receive respective drive storage devices, which store respective SFF8201 7 mm drives, in EIA RS310D 2U space.“

The patent application was filed on March 30, 2012 (13/436,397).