US Patent Issued to US Conec on June 10 for "Fiber handling tool with spring loaded doors" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,114, issued on June 10, was assigned to US Conec Ltd. (Hickory, N.C.).

"Fiber handling tool with spring loaded doors" was invented by Kolton Baer (Hickory, N.C.), Mitchell Cloud (Hickory, N.C.), Darrell R. Childers (Hickory, N.C.) and Jillcha F. Wakjira (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber handling tool has a cover to engage optical fibers placed in the fiber handling tool. There may be more than one cover and the covers have at least two elastic elements. There are at least two elastic elements that cooperate to hold the optical fibers and/or cable in place and another elastic element may be used with a door lock th...