ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,714, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) and Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Cable inspection apparatus" was invented by Zongjie Tao (Shanghai), Dandan Zhang (Shanghai), Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.), Lvhai Hu (Shanghai), Yuhang Shang (Shanghai) and Hongze Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable inspection apparatus includes an image capturing device and a determination device. The image capturing device includes a ring camera frame and a plurality of cameras mounted on the ring camera frame and distributed at intervals on a circumfere...