ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,766, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Panduit Corp. (Tinley Park, Ill.).
"Fusion spliced connector" was invented by Satish I. Patel (Roselle, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical connector which houses and holds a fusion spliced portion in which a short optical fiber fitted to an optical connector ferrule is fusion-spliced with a buffered optical fiber. One end of a protection sleeve which reinforces said fusion spliced portion is configured to be coupled to said optical connector ferrule. The protection sleeve has an inner sleeve and a clamping sleeve wherein the inner sleeve is configured to be inserted into the clamp...