US Patent Issued to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 30 for "Lanyards for telecommunications equipment including ports and mating connectors" (Belgian, American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,661, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, N.C.).

"Lanyards for telecommunications equipment including ports and mating connectors" was invented by Patrick Jacques Ann Diepstraten (Beringen, Belgium), Harry L. Vaswani (Garner, N.C.) and Luis Carlos Mendoza (Chihuahua, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telecommunications closure includes a plurality of connector ports, and a plurality of dust caps for the connector ports wherein a lanyard connects one of the dust caps with one of the ports. The dust caps are mateable and demateable with each of the ports. The closure with the dust caps in plac...