US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORORATION on May 26 for "Fiber optic connectors having one or more securing buttons with specific shapes" (American, Polish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,641, issued on May 26, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORORATION (Corning, N.Y.).

"Fiber optic connectors having one or more securing buttons with specific shapes" was invented by Micah Colen Isenhour (Lincolnton, N.C.), Lukasz Piotr Janasz (Lodz, Poland) and Michael Wimmer (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fiber optic connectors and cable assemblies comprising a retention body with a portion that fits within a connector housing when assembled and is secured to the connector housing using one or more securing buttons are disclosed. The connector housing comprises at least one connector housing aperture and the ret...