US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Dec. 16 for "Optical cable assembly with mismatched fiber pitch" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,525, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Optical cable assembly with mismatched fiber pitch" was invented by Michael A. Haase (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical cable subassembly includes a plurality of optical fibers; at least one light coupling unit with a coupling unit attachment area configured to receive and hold a free end of each optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers at a coupling unit pitch; and a cable retainer adapted to be installed in a housing and having a retainer attachment area with a plurality of spaced-apart retainer fiber alignment f...