US Patent Issued to LEVITON MANUFACTURING on Feb. 17 for "Four-port horizontal miniature duplex connector adapter" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,072, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LEVITON MANUFACTURING Co. INC. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Four-port horizontal miniature duplex connector adapter" was invented by Amelia Ann Brown (Lake Forest Park, Wash.) and Jon Riley (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A miniature duplex connector (MDC) adapter is designed accommodate four MDC ports while maintaining a footprint or cross-sectional profile that is similar to that of an LC quad adapter, thereby allowing the MDC adapter to be used in fiber cassettes or other fiber enclosures that are designed to use LC quad adapters. The adapter's MDC ports are oriented horizontally and ar...