Skip to main content
DellPatent grant

Dell was granted a patent for an adaptable electronic rack door.

Source: Autobound Signal API · 107 signals tracked for Dell · updated

Get Dell's live signals in Claude or ChatGPT, or by API

AskWhat changed at Dell this week? Use Autobound signals for dell.com.

What happened

In October 2026 Dell patented adjustable rack-door hardware for securing servers and other equipment in data centers with varying cabinet widths.

Source

patents.google.comOct 27, 2026

US patent US12777604

Adaptive rack door

Abstract

Devices, systems, and methods for securing electronic racks are disclosed. The electronic racks may be securing using adaptable rack doors. The rack doors may include width adjustment features. The width adjustment features may be used to place a rack door into compatibility with an electronic rack. The width adjustment features may enable different portions of the rack door to be repositioned with respect to one another to modify a width of the rack door. The adaptable rack door may also include features to enable it to be opened from the left or right hand side.

patents.google.com/patent/US12777604Read the full source

Extracted by Autobound

From the Signal API record
Signal
Patent grant

What this signalsA new patent often shows where a company is putting its R&D budget.

Grant date
Oct 27, 2026
Inventors
4
Tech area
PCB / electronics packaging
Patent number
US12777604

The full record

From the Signal API record

People

  • Sean P. O'DonnellInventor
  • Richard Andrew CrispInventor
  • Daniel AlvaradoInventor
  • Julian Yu-Hao ChenInventor
  • Nicholas Lenn PoterackiInventor

Details

Primary CPC class
H05K 7/1488 (Printed circuits; casings; manufacture of electrical assemblages)
USPTO assignee
Dell Products L.P.
What the invention does
A rack door whose sections can slide or reposition to change its width and fit different electronic equipment cabinets.

Topics and mentions

Tags

  • Intellectual Property
  • Research & Development
  • Data Center
  • Infrastructure

Technologies named

  • data center racks
  • server enclosures
  • electronics packaging

Extraction

Detected
Oct 30, 2026
signal_type
patents-company
signal_subtype
patentGrant

Use this data

Get every patent signal for Dell and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.

  1. Ask Claude about it

    Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at Dell this week?”

  2. Send it to your own tools

    The Signal API returns patent signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.

  3. Try it free

    Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.

    Start Free1,000 free credits

The API returns more than this page shows

This page shows a preview. The full patents-company record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.

Company

  • linkedin_urlValue in the API
  • industriesValue in the API
  • employee_count_lowValue in the API
  • employee_count_highValue in the API
  • revenueValue in the API
  • descriptionValue in the API

Signal

  • signal_nameValue in the API
  • associationValue in the API
Show the full JSONThe record on this page and the API request

GET /v1/signals/058b39f7-88d1-5e87-b679-9ab8d4c59cf0 returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for dell.com.

{
  "signal_id": "058b39f7-88d1-5e87-b679-9ab8d4c59cf0",
  "signal_type": "patents-company",
  "signal_subtype": "patentGrant",
  "detected_at": "2026-10-30T01:06:02+00:00",
  "company": {
    "name": "Dell",
    "domain": "dell.com"
  },
  "data": {
    "cpc": [
      {
        "code": "H05K 7/1488",
        "label": "Printed circuits; casings; manufacture of electrical assemblages"
      }
    ],
    "tags": [
      "Intellectual Property",
      "Research & Development",
      "Data Center",
      "Infrastructure"
    ],
    "detail": "In October 2026 Dell patented adjustable rack-door hardware for securing servers and other equipment in data centers with varying cabinet widths.",
    "summary": "Dell was granted a patent for an adaptable electronic rack door.",
    "event_at": "2026-10-27",
    "inventors": [
      {
        "name": "Sean P. O'Donnell",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "is_primary": true
      },
      {
        "name": "Richard Andrew Crisp",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "is_primary": false
      },
      {
        "name": "Daniel Alvarado",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "is_primary": false
      },
      {
        "name": "Julian Yu-Hao Chen",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "is_primary": false
      },
      {
        "name": "Nicholas Lenn Poteracki",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "is_primary": false
      }
    ],
    "tech_area": "PCB / electronics packaging",
    "event_kind": "grant_date",
    "grant_date": "2026-10-27",
    "source_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US12777604",
    "cpc_primary": {
      "code": "H05K 7/1488",
      "label": "Printed circuits; casings; manufacture of electrical assemblages"
    },
    "patent_title": "Adaptive rack door",
    "patent_number": "US12777604",
    "uspto_assignee": "Dell Products L.P.",
    "patent_abstract": "Devices, systems, and methods for securing electronic racks are disclosed. The electronic racks may be securing using adaptable rack doors. The rack doors may include width adjustment features. The width adjustment features may be used to place a rack door into compatibility with an electronic rack. The width adjustment features may enable different portions of the rack door to be repositioned with respect to one another to modify a width of the rack door. The adaptable rack door may also include features to enable it to be opened from the left or right hand side.",
    "precision_class": "structural",
    "invention_explanation": "A rack door whose sections can slide or reposition to change its width and fit different electronic equipment cabinets.",
    "technologies_mentioned": [
      "data center racks",
      "server enclosures",
      "electronics packaging"
    ]
  }
}

Long text fields are shortened on this page.

Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.