ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,026, issued on July 8, was assigned to CommScope Connectivity UK Ltd. (Swindon, Great Britain) and CommScope Telecommunications (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Fiber optic connector" was invented by David Patrick Murray (Bristol, Great Britain), Chris Charles Taylor (Cheltenham Glos, Great Britain), Gordon John White (Gloucester, Great Britain), Zhaoyang Tong (Shanghai) and Lei Liu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector including two connector portions each including a ferrule and a latch, each latch including a distal end, and a proximal end, wherein the latch is pivotable about an intermediate connection portion; and ...