ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,997, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Legrand AVD (Dayton, Ohio).
"Coupler/stop for mounting to cable" was invented by Child Kuan Leok Sun (Irvine, Calif.), Jennifer Dawn Crotinger (Vista, Calif.) and Terry Lynn Smith (Springboro, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupler/stop for mounting relative to a cable is provided. The coupler/stop can be used in combination with an adapter system that facilitates convenient access to one or more adapters, e.g., DVI-D to HDMI adapter(s), Micro-HDMI to HDMI adapter(s), Mini-HDMI to HDMI adapter(s), Mini-DisplayPort to HDMI adapter(s), DisplayPort to HDMI adapter(s), VGA to HDMI adapter(s)...