Patent ID: 11877416
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a riser card body;
a first interface with a first set of fingers and a second set of fingers at an end of the riser card body to connect to a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) slot of a motherboard, wherein the second set of fingers comprises a twenty pin assignment configuration, wherein at least one pin of the twenty pin assignment configuration is assigned to divert power from an unused PCIe slot to an accessory connected to the riser card body, and wherein the riser card body is powered by the at least one pin of the twenty pin assignment configuration without an external power source;
a first 2×8 slot on a surface of the riser card body; and
a second 2×8 slot on a same side of the surface of the riser card body as the first 2×8 slot, wherein the first 2×8 slot and the second 2×8 slot are positioned perpendicular to the PCIe slot of the motherboard.