US Patent Issued to Corning Research & Development on March 18 for "Fiber optic assembly with splice tray" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,732, issued on March 18, was assigned to Corning Research & Development Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Fiber optic assembly with splice tray" was invented by Ulrich Lutterkordt (Wuppertal, Germany) and Andreas Zappek (Dinslaken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic assembly having a splice tray that increases spatial efficiency within the fiber optic assembly and within the splice tray. The splice tray may be inserted and/or removed from a terminal without utilization of tools. Additionally, the splice tray may be configured to enable one handed insertion or removal, which may be advantageo...