US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Nov. 4 for "Optical connector with rotatable boot and related methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,320, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Optical connector with rotatable boot and related methods" was invented by Larry Todd McKinney (Keller, Texas) and Louis Edward Parkman III (Keller, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical connector includes a connector sub-assembly, an inner housing that receives a rear portion of the connector sub-assembly, a boot extending from the inner housing, and an outer housing coupled to the boot. The outer housing and the boot are configured to allow relative rotation about a longitudinal axis of the optical connector but can move together ...