ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,925, issued on July 1, was assigned to CommScope Technologies LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Telecommunications connector with latch release mechanism" was invented by Tyler John Royer (York, Pa.), Robert Charles Flaig (Lancaster, Pa.), David Donald Erdman (Hummelstown, Pa.), Michael Lawrence Gurreri (York, Pa.) and Brent Campbell (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications connector. The connector includes at least one connector portion including a front housing portion coupled to a rear housing portion, the front housing portion being rotatable relative to the rear housing portion abou...