US Patent Issued to US Conec on Feb. 10 for "Fiber cable jacket retention features for VSFF fiber-optic connectors" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,954, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to US Conec Ltd. (Hickory, N.C.).

"Fiber cable jacket retention features for VSFF fiber-optic connectors" was invented by Scott Mendenhall (Hickory, N.C.), Jason Higley (Hickory, N.C.), Mitchell Cloud (Hickory, N.C.) and Darrell R. Childers (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic connector has a crimp body that allows for a heat shrink tube to be abutted to the crimp band used with the crimp body or dispose underneath the crimp band to allow for the use with a VSFF fiber-optic connector."

The patent was filed on May 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/325,800.

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