US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Oct. 28 for "Optical interconnect system for an equipment rack of a fiber optic network and method of installing fiber optic cables in an equipment rack using the optical interconnect system" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,425, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Optical interconnect system for an equipment rack of a fiber optic network and method of installing fiber optic cables in an equipment rack using the optical interconnect system" was invented by Christopher Shawn Houser (Hickory, N.C.), Francisco Luna Pina (Hickory, N.C.) and Joshua Thomas Smith (Mooresville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical interconnect system for installing fiber optic cables in an equipment rack having an equipment patch panel with a plurality of coupling port locations is disclosed. The optical interconnec...