ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,486, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical cable connection box and adapter" was invented by Wei Xiong (Shenzhen, China), Bingjun Chen (Johannesburg) and Zhijian Zhang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose an optical cable connection box and an adapter, and belong to the field of optical cable connection technologies. The optical cable connection box includes a box body, at least one pair of adapters, and at least one optical fiber, and each adapter includes a first interface and a second interface that are opposite to each other; t...