ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,926, issued on July 1, was assigned to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, N.C.).

"Sealing enclosure for a connector on a cable such as a standardized fiber-optic connector having coordinated bodies radially compressing a cable seal" was invented by Jacob Arie Elenbaas (Heyningen, Netherlands) and Jarno Verhoeven (Rosemalen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing enclosure is configured to connect to a mating enclosure. The sealing enclosure loosely receives a connector within a connector volume so that the connector, which may be of a standard type used in electronic or optic data transmission, may be displaced within ...