ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,013, issued on July 8, was assigned to COMMSCOPE CONNECTIVITY BELGIUM BVBA (Kessel-Lo, Belgium).

"Light weight fiber optic splice and fiber management system" was invented by Stefano Beri (Zaventem, Belgium), Danny Willy August Verheyden (Gelrode, Belgium), Jan Watte (Grimbergen, Belgium), Roel Modest Willy Bryon (Aarschot, Belgium), Kristof Vastmans (Boutersem, Belgium) and Johan Geens (Bunsbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an optical splice package for splicing together first and second optical fibers or first and second sets of optical fibers. The optical fibers have elastic bending char...