ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,042, issued on May 5, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Fiber enclosures having strengthening ribs" 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 a closure body, a lid removably coupled to the closure body, and a plurality of clamps coupling the lid to the closure body. The lid includes a lid body, a lid lip extending from the lid body between each of the plurality of clamps, and a plurality of lid ribs connecting the lid lip and the lid body thereby providing a lid reinforcement between each adjacent cl...