ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,126, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Fiber Mountain Inc. (Cheshire, Conn.).

"Connectivity appliance" was invented by Mohammad H. Raza (San Jose, Calif.), Boby Joseph (Shrewsbury, Mass.), David G. Stone (Irvine, Calif.), Aristito Lorenzo (Plantsville, Conn.), Ronald M. Plante (Prospect, Conn.), Phuc Minh Ly (Waterbury, Conn.), Robert O'Neil (Bethel, Conn.) and John R. Lagana (West Nyack, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connectivity appliance that can interconnect, optical fiber communication paths of one fiber density to optical fiber communication paths of a different density, for either breakout or aggregation functionality...