ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,523, issued on April 29, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Fiber-optic splice storage tray" was invented by Christophe Joseph Marie Corbille (Saint Nicolas de Redon, France), Michel Teva Menguy (La Chevallerais, France) and Pierre-emanuel Marcel Picaud (Dreffeac, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber-optic storage tray is disclosed, comprising a fiber splicing portion; wherein the fiber splicing portion is configured to retain a plurality of optical fiber splices, such that adjacent optical fiber splices are offset with respect to one another in the direction of the depth of the tray and th...