US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on July 14 for "Optical cable assembly with mismatched fiber length" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,241, issued on July 14, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Optical cable assembly with mismatched fiber length" was invented by Michael A. Haase (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical connector assembly includes a first optical connector and a second optical connector. The first optical connector includes a first housing, a plurality of first optical fibers, a first cable retainer and a first light coupling unit attached to the plurality of first optical fibers and separated by a first optical fiber length L1. The second optical connector includes a second housing, a plurality of seco...