US Patent Issued to Panduit on Oct. 21 for "Apparatus and system for visual inspection of fiber ends and image analysis tool for detecting contamination" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,328, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Panduit Corp. (Tinley Park, Ill.).

"Apparatus and system for visual inspection of fiber ends and image analysis tool for detecting contamination" was invented by Yu Huang (Orland Park, Ill.), Jose M. Castro (Naperville, Ill.), Andrew R. Matcha (Chicago) and Bulent Kose (Burr Ridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual inspection device and apparatus is disclosed for inspecting fiber ends of a connector by capturing an image of the connector end face, and implementing an image analysis tool for detecting contamination from the captured image. The visual inspection tool includes component...