US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on June 30 for "Fiber optic closure assemblies, fiber drop access points, and methods for installing fiber drop access points" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,669, issued on June 30, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Fiber optic closure assemblies, fiber drop access points, and methods for installing fiber drop access points" was invented by Dani Liu (Corning, N.Y.) and Zachary Michael Thompson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber enclosure includes an upper body portion and a lower body portion coupled to the upper body portion. The upper body portion defines a primary volume. The lower body portion extends from the upper body portion and defines an inlet volume in communication with the primary volume, the lower body portion comprisin...