US Patent Issued to PPC BROADBAND on Feb. 17 for "Fiber optical connector with cable retention feature" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,074, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PPC BROADBAND INC. (East Syracuse, N.Y.).

"Fiber optical connector with cable retention feature" was invented by William Crawford (Syracuse, N.Y.), Peter Carapella (Fayetteville, N.Y.), Noah Montena (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Tom Carpenter (East Syracuse, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic connector includes a ferrule holder configured to receive a ferrule that terminates an optical fiber cable, a connector sub-assembly configured to receive an optical fiber cable and to hold the ferrule holder, a connector body configured to hold the connector sub-assembly, a shroud configured to enci...