ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,728, issued on July 29, was assigned to GLORIOLE ELECTROPTIC TECHNOLOGY CORP. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and SHEN ZHEN WONDERWIN TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical fiber connector with attenuation function" was invented by Hsien-Hsin Hsu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Yu Cheng Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Ke Xue Ning (Shenzhen, China) and Shu Bin Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber connector includes a connecting unit, an adapter unit, and an attenuation unit. The adapter unit includes an insertion seat connected removably to a main housing of the connecting unit, and two guide frame bodies located respective...