US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on April 15 for "Compact fiber optic connectors, cable assemblies and methods of making the same" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,846, issued on April 15, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Compact fiber optic connectors, cable assemblies and methods of making the same" was invented by Joel Christopher Rosson (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fiber optic connectors comprising compact footprints along with cable assemblies and methods for making the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the optical connector comprises a housing and a ferrule. The housing comprises a longitudinal passageway between a rear end and a front end. The optical connectors disclosed may be tunable for improving optical performance and may i...