ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,111, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to VeEX Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).
"Field replaceable optical connector protector" was invented by Paul Chang (Fremont, Calif.), Cyrille Morelle (Los Altos, Calif.) and Cheng-Pei Tung (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus relating to a coupler comprising: a body comprising: a first end couplable to an external connector comprising an external ferrule, a second end couplable to an internal connector, comprising an internal ferrule, of a test device, and a cavity; and a first replaceable portion comprising a replaceable ferrule, the first replaceable portion positioned in the cavi...