US Patent Issued to AFL Telecommunications on Aug. 5 for "Fiber optic cassettes and splice modules" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,560, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AFL Telecommunications LLC (Duncan, S.C.).

"Fiber optic cassettes and splice modules" was invented by Wilfred Courchaine (Moore, S.C.) and Shirley Ball (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic cassette includes a cassette body, the cassette body extending along a longitudinal axis between a front and a rear, extending along a lateral axis between a first side and a second side, and extending along a transverse axis between a bottom and a top. The fiber optic cassette further includes a plurality of fiber optic adapter apertures defined at the front of the cassette body. The fiber...