US Patent Issued to CommScope Technologies on March 31 for "Sheath termination and ribbon orienting devices and methods for flat optical fiber ribbons" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,098, issued on March 31, was assigned to CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, N.C.).

"Sheath termination and ribbon orienting devices and methods for flat optical fiber ribbons" was invented by Eddy Luc Cams (Bilzen, Belgium), Maarten Michiels (Herent, Belgium), Cornelia Van De Velde (Herselt, Belgium) and Erwin Beckers (Werchter, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for retaining, orienting, and/or fanning out flat optical fiber ribbons. The devices are configured to anchor end portions of sheaths holding multiple flat optical fiber ribbons as the flat fiber ribbons enter a fiber management tray via the retain...