US Patent Issued to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES on April 15 for "Distributed tap architecture incorporating hardened connectivity" (North Carolina, Minnesota, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,844, issued on April 15, was assigned to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, N.C.).

"Distributed tap architecture incorporating hardened connectivity" was invented by Douglas Ferris Dowling (Cary, N.C.), Erik J. Gronvall (Bloomington, Minn.) and Frederic Amt (Doylestown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distributed optical tapping architectures include two or more optical tap terminals daisy-chained together. Each optical tap terminal includes an environmentally sealed enclosure; an optical tapping circuit positioned within an interior of the enclosure, the optical tapping circuit including an tap input, a tap pass-through output, ...