ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,641, issued on July 14, was assigned to AMD Design LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Transceiver protection device" was invented by Justin Widodo Purnamasidi (Atlanta) and Jie Ren (Little Falls, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transceiver protection device includes a body operable to be coupled with a cable. The cable is operable to be coupled, via a connector of the cable, to a transceiver. A detach component is operable to receive a detach force to detach the cable from the transceiver. The detach component extends from the body such that the detach component is adjacent to the transceiver when the cable is coupled with the transceive...