ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,837, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA (Kessel-Lo, Belgium).

"Cable manager with cable-strength clamping member and U-shaped cable passage" was invented by Peter Claes (Berlaar, Belgium) and Heidi Bleus (Genk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telecommunications rack system includes a first element defining splice locations and a second element defining adapters for receiving connectorized cabling, wherein the first and second elements are positioned on the same rack. A first end of a fiber optic pigtail is spliced at and extends from the splice locations of the first element. A second end ...