ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,298, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Senko Advanced Components Inc. (Hudson, Mass.).

"Optoelectronic connections to printed circuit boards" was invented by Takuya Ninomiya (Saitama, Japan), Jeffrey Gniadek (Oxford, Maine), Yim Wong (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Tyler Royer (York, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the pluggable connection of an optoelectronic module with an optoelectronic connector assembly from a location exterior to the optoelectronic connector assembly. An optoelectronic module comprises a housing having a proximate end and a rear end in a longitudinal direction; a ferrule arranged ...