US Patent Issued to Clearfield on April 29 for "Flexible optical fiber connectors and assemblies" (Minnesota, California, Maine, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,519, issued on April 29, was assigned to Clearfield Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Flexible optical fiber connectors and assemblies" was invented by John P. Hill (Oak Grove, Minn.), Brian Larson (Andover, Minn.), Jeffrey Gniadek (Otisfield, Maine), David J. Johnsen (Plymouth, Minn.), James John Henschel (Chula Vista, Calif.) and Matthew John Brigham (Charlton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible optical fiber connector comprises a first housing component configured to couple to a terminating connector, and a second housing component configured to receive an optical fiber for termination in the terminating connector. The first housin...