US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Feb. 10 for "Compact fiber optic connectors having keying portions and locking features" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,955, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Compact fiber optic connectors having keying portions and locking features" was invented by Joel Christopher Rosson (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fiber optic connectors, 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, and, a part of the rear portion of the housing comprises a round cross-section and a part of the front portion of the housing comprises ...