ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,842, issued on April 15, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC LATAM S.A. (Curitiba-Pr, Brazil).
"Optical termination and derivation box" was invented by Thiago Deconto Vieira (Curitiba-Pr, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A box having a base and a lid hinged to the base and displaceable between a closed position and an open position. A peripheral wall of the base is provided with two lateral openings each flanked by two inclined recesses and each closed by a sealing grommet for the passage of at least one multi-fiber optical cable and which is pressed into the lateral opening to receive a sealing gasket carried by the lid. A splitte...