ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,718, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Fiber optic assembly with connectorized midplane" was invented by Chois Alven Blackwell Jr. (North Richland Hills, Texas), Rolando Herrera Gutierrez (Reynosa, Mexico), Larry Todd McKinney (Keller, Texas), Jason Cameron Payne (Fort Worth, Texas) and Fabiola Patricia Villanueva Tavares (Reynosa, Mexico).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic assembly is provided including a base configured to be mounted to a surface, a sidewall extending from the base, a cover configured to engage the sidewall to enclose a portion of the fiber optic asse...