ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,963, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Clearfield Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Sealed optical fiber terminal" was invented by John P. Hill (Oak Grove, Minn.), Daniel J. Johnson (Blaine, Minn.), Randy T. VanHorn (Princeton, Minn.) and Walter E. Power II (Jordan, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealed terminal has a housing, a cover, a splice tray, an adapter plate, and a splice chip. The cover is connected to the housing to close an interior compartment and has input ports for receiving one or more cables and an output adapter module having a plurality of distribution ports. The splice tray is positioned in the interior compartment an...