US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on March 24 for "Fiber optic cable assemblies with in-line terminal assemblies and methods of making and installing same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,071, issued on March 24, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Fiber optic cable assemblies with in-line terminal assemblies and methods of making and installing same" was invented by Brandon Duvall Compton (Newton, N.C.), Cameron Blake Crisp (Newton, N.C.) and Brandon O'Brien Norwood (Lincolnton, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic cable assembly including a fiber optic cable carrying a plurality of optical fibers. A terminal assembly is coupled to the fiber optic cable along a length of the cable and is where a subset of the optical fibers terminate. The terminal assembly includes a f...