ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,031, issued on May 5, was assigned to O-Net Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to reduce EMI for fiber optic arrays" was invented by Xiwen Wang (Gilroy, Calif.), Zining Huang (Fremont, Calif.), David Meghavoryan (San Jose, Calif.), Jian Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Qinrong Yu (Fremont, Calif.) and Xiaobing Luo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for sealing EMI leakage from an optical fiber array belt includes a clamp made of a first conductive material, the clamp having a substantially U-shaped chamber; and a sealant having first and second ends to receive the optical fiber array belt in bet...