US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, UPMC on Aug. 18 for "Fiberoptic cable safety devices" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,580, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh) and UPMC (Pittsburgh).

"Fiberoptic cable safety devices" was invented by Steven Gerard Docimo (Philadelphia), William W. Clark (Wexford, Pa.), Alexandra Marie Delazio (Pittsburgh), John A. Holmes (Wexford, Pa.) and Benjamin T. Ristau (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Safety devices that are positioned on the end of a fiberoptic cable and assemblies including a safety device and a fiber optic cable. The safety devices can include an annular adaptor for receiving a connector of a fiber optic cable and ...