US Patent Issued to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 9 for "Fiber optic cable terminal with a pushable stub cable" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,157, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, N.C.).

"Fiber optic cable terminal with a pushable stub cable" was invented by Patrick Jacques Ann Diepstraten (Heusden-Zolden, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic cable terminal proximally terminates a stub cable carrying one or more optical fibers. The stub cable is structurally adapted to be advanced through at least a portion of a conduit by distally pushing a distal end of the stub cable from a location that is proximal to a proximal end of the conduit and without applying any pulling force at any location that is distal to the proximal e...