ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,650, issued on May 26, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Cable slack management apparatus for co-packaged opto-electrical devices" was invented by Andreas Matiss (Berlin) and Tim Grygiel (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable manager is provided including a base, a cable hub configured to rotate relative to the base, and a directional resistance element configured to allow rotation of the cable hub in a first direction and resist rotation of the cable hub in a second direction, that is opposite the first direction. The cable hub includes a cable slot configured to receive at least one cable...