ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,091, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Ferrule, fiber connector, and ferrule production method" was invented by Dan Guo (Dongguan, China) and Baoqi Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ferrule includes a ferrule body and at least one fiber. The fiber is inserted into a through hole axially disposed in the ferrule body, a first end of the fiber is located inside the through hole, an end face of the first end of the fiber is below a plane on which a connection end face of the ferrule body is located, and a first preset distance is a vertical distance between the end f...