US Patent Issued to CommScope Technologies on May 13 for "Optical panel arrangements and modules therefore" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,583, issued on May 13, was assigned to CommScope Technologies LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Optical panel arrangements and modules therefore" was invented by Kristofer Bolster (Jordan, Minn.), John T. Pfarr (Le Sueur, Minn.), Matthew J. Holmberg (Carver, Minn.), Jill Anne Malecha (Bloomington, Minn.) and Jon Bradley Collins (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A panel arrangement provides at least 288 output fiber connections within 1 rack unit (RU). The panel arrangement includes modules mounted within a chassis. Each module carries a plurality of optical adapters, which each define multiple de-mateable connection interface ...