ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,536, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Prysmian S.p.A. (Milan).
"Multi-port gland for an optical closure" was invented by Nathan Paddick (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-port gland for an optical closure, the multi-port gland comprising a gland body configured to be attached to an optical closure, the gland body having gland channels extending along an insertion direction, each gland channel being configured for passage of an optical cable; one or more adapters, each adapter being configured to retain an optical cable and being configured to be inserted at least partially into a gland channel, each adapter comprising a ...