US Patent Issued to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES on May 26 for "Installing an optical fiber" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,642, issued on May 26, was assigned to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, N.C.).

"Installing an optical fiber" was invented by Levi T. Merrick (Shakopee, Minn.), Yu Lu (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Steven Conrad Zimmel (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To install a connectorized cable assembly, a cable terminated at a connector core is pushed through a duct. The connector core has a maximum outer diameter of no more than 5 mm to facilitate passage of the connector core through the duct. A plug body is mounted over the connector core after the connector core exits the duct. No intermediate assembly steps are performed on the co...