ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,840, issued on April 15, was assigned to Panduit Corp. (Tinley Park, Ill.).
"Hollow core fiber air-gap connector" was invented by Bulent Kose (Burr Ridge, Ill.), Jose M. Castro (Naperville, Ill.), Yu Huang (Orland Park, Ill.) and Richard J. Pimpinella (Prairieville, La.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-gap HCF connector termination method and connector assembly for factory and field connector assembly termination for patch cables and trunk cables made from HCF, where in multitude of mechanisms can facilitate air-gap between the first and second HCF fiber end-faces, comprising preparing the HCF end-faces using appropriate cleaving...