US Patent Issued to US Conec on June 10 for "Dust plug for adapter pre-populated with MPO housing" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,597, issued on June 10, was assigned to US Conec Ltd. (Hickory, N.C.).

"Dust plug for adapter pre-populated with MPO housing" was invented by 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 dust plug for use in a pre-populated adapters has a main body having a top wall, a bottom wall, and two opposing side walls extending between the top wall and bottom wall. The dust plug also includes at least one pair of latches in a front portion of the main body and each of the at least one pair of latches may have an increased thickness at a forward end thereof...