US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on July 21 for "Adapter for a fiber-optic plug" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,680, issued on July 21, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Adapter for a fiber-optic plug" was invented by Aurelien Julien Alexandre Macoin (Nantes, France) and Gordon Mueller-Schlomka (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter for a fiber-optic plug is disclosed, the adapter configured to be received in a port of a fiber-optic apparatus, the adapter comprising: a first opening proximate a first end of the adapter, the first opening configured to receive a multifiber fiber optic connector; a second opening proximate a second end of the adapter, the second opening configured to receive a hard...