ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,103, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ACCELINK TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Adapter assembly" was invented by Xiaobo Zhao (Wuhan, China), Zhechi Lu (Wuhan, China), Xinhai Zhu (Wuhan, China), Ping Gu (Wuhan, China), Benqing Quan (Wuhan, China), Chuanbin Zhang (Wuhan, China) and Yong Luo (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter assembly, relating to field of optical communication and comprising: a housing enclosed to form a chamber; a holding sleeve integrally formed with the housing, in which a receiving chamber is provided, wherein one end of the holding sleeve is provided in the chamber and the other end p...