ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,583, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Guangdong, China).

"Pre-connector and communications device" was invented by Xiupeng Li (Wuhan, China), Feng Tang (Wuhan, China), Jianxiong Yu (Wuhan, China) and Boyong He (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a pre-connector and a communications device. The pre-connector includes a connector component and an outdoor component. The connector component includes a ferrule base and a ferrule that is slidable relative to the ferrule base. The ferrule base is configured to fasten the optical cable, and the ferrule is connected to a...