ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,611, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Fiber connector plug, fiber adapter, connector assembly, and communications device" was invented by Xiupeng Li (Wuhan, China), Wei Xiong (Shenzhen, China) and Shangjun Peng (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber connector plug includes a main housing sleeved over a periphery of a fiber and a first locking structure disposed on an outer surface of the main housing, where the first locking structure is used to fit a second locking structure on a fiber adapter, the first locking structure includes a sliding member and a locking part, ...