ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,949, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ACCELINK TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Optical fiber adapter" was invented by Xiaobo Zhao (Wuhan, China), Zhechi Lu (Wuhan, China), Ping Gu (Wuhan, China), Benqing Quan (Wuhan, China), Chuanbin Zhang (Wuhan, China) and Yong Luo (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber adapter, relating to field of optical communication and comprising: a housing with a chamber having a first and second chamber connected with each other and respectively with two opposite ends of the housing; a retaining member integrally formed with the housing and provided within the first chamber, ...