US Patent Issued to Senko Advanced Components on March 25 for "Optical fiber connector with changeable polarity" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,585, issued on March 25, was assigned to Senko Advanced Components Inc. (Hudson, Mass.).

"Optical fiber connector with changeable polarity" was invented by Jeffrey Gniadek (Oxford, Maine), Kim Man Wong (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Yim Wong (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Jimmy Chang (Sturbridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-fiber, fiber optic connector may include a reversible keying arrangement for determining the orientation for plugging the connector into an adapter to thereby allow for a change in polarity of the connection to be made on site. The connector housing may be configured to engage with a removable key that may be e...