US Patent Issued to MULTILINK on June 30 for "Splice enclosure" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,668, issued on June 30, was assigned to MULTILINK INC. (Elyria, Ohio).

"Splice enclosure" was invented by Steven E. Kaplan (Elyria, Ohio) and Steve Brown (Amherst, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A splice enclosure includes a housing having first and second housing portions that form an internal enclosed cavity in a first position and allow access to the cavity in a second position. The first housing portion receives an associated fiber optic cable in and out of the cavity. One or more associated optical fibers of the fiber optic cable are to be joined to associated drop cables in the first housing portion and the associated drop...