ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,035, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hexatronic Cables & Interconnect Systems AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Cable sheath material" was invented by Fredrik Skargard (Nasviken, Sweden), Jonas Ekstedt (Forsa, Sweden), Anders Lindroth (Hudiksvall, Sweden) and Roger Farlin (Ljusdal, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one general aspect, a cable assembly adapted to be installed into a duct by a combination of blowing and mechanical feeding. The cable assembly can include at least one flexible signal transmitting member for transmitting optical signals, a first layer surrounding the at least one flexible signal transmitting memb...