US Patent Issued to US Conec on Sept. 22 for "Adapter shutter assembly with shutter retention cap" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,935, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to US Conec Ltd. (Hickory, N.C.).

"Adapter shutter assembly with shutter retention cap" was invented by Jason Higley (Hickory, N.C.), Darrell R. Childers (Hickory, N.C.) and Craig M. Conrad (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic adapter assembly includes an adapter body, a spring clip and a retention cap attached to the adapter body enclosing each of the spring clip and two shutters. The adapter body has a main opening and a plurality of pivot arms extending away from the main opening and two latch arms, each of the latch arms disposed between a pair of the pivot arms causin...