US Patent Issued to Senko Advanced Components on Dec. 2 for "Fiber optic connector with displaceable guide pin" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,412, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Senko Advanced Components Inc. (Hudson, Mass.).

"Fiber optic connector with displaceable guide pin" was invented by Man Ming Ho (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a fiber optic connector, a ferrule body is received in a connector housing. A displaceable guide pin is movable in relation to the ferrule body. A spring yieldably biases the displaceable guide pin forward along a longitudinal axis of the fiber optic connector. The displaceable guide pin is displaced backward along the longitudinal axis in relation to the ferrule body and resiliently compresses the spring as the fiber...