ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,702, issued on June 2, was assigned to Panduit Corp. (Tinley Park, Ill.).

"Fabric modules for server to switch connections" was invented by Jose M. Castro (Naperville, Ill.), Richard J. Pimpinella (Prairieville, La.), Bulent Kose (Burr Ridge, Ill.) and Yu Huang (Orland Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus having a plurality of multifiber connector interfaces, where some of these multifiber connector interfaces can connect to network equipment in a network using multifiber cables, has an internal mesh implemented in two tiers. The first is configured to rearrange and the second is configured to recombine individual fi...