ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,596, issued on June 10, was assigned to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, N.C.).

"Flexible organizer and self-supporting unit" was invented by Roel Modest Willy Bryon (Kessel-Lo, Belgium), Jan Willem Rietveld (Benschop, Netherlands), Philippe Coenegracht (Hasselt, Belgium), Johan Geens (Bunsbeek, Belgium) and Pieter Vermeulen (Westerlo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a fiber management device or system for facilitating routing and storing optical fibers. The fiber management device includes a flexible, film-like substrate that has optical fiber management, storing functionality, and splici...