US Patent Issued to Corning Research & Development on Feb. 4 for "Deflector and method for reducing entry of dust and/or fluid into an enclosure" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,730, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Corning Research & Development Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Deflector and method for reducing entry of dust and/or fluid into an enclosure" was invented by Alan Duncan Burkett (Bedford, Texas), William Julius McPhil Giraud (Azle, Texas), Charles Todd Henke (Boyd, Texas) and Selvam Packiarajan (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deflector may be configured to reduce entry of at least one of dust or fluid into an enclosure configured to enclose in an interior thereof a plurality of optical communication connections. The deflector may include a first leg defining a first intersection edge and...