ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,585, issued on May 13, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Preconnectorized distribution cable assemblies and methods of making using a pull string" was invented by Terry Lee Cooke (Hickory, N.C.), Michael Todd Faulkner (Granite Falls, N.C.), Christopher Shawn Houser (Hickory, N.C.) and Lars Kristian Nielsen (Denver, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are preconnectorized cable assemblies and methods of making using a pull string. One embodiment of the disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a distribution cable assembly using a pull string fed through a jacket of a distrib...