[June 17, 2013] Corning Cable Systems Assigned Patent for Optical Fiber Handler for a Fiber Optic Connection Termination System Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Corning Cable Systems, Hickory, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,459,877) developed by four co-inventors for an "optical fiber handler for a fiber optic connection termination system." The co-inventors are Brandon A. Barnes, Ft. Worth, Texas, Kevin C. Beach, Haltom City, Texas, Ashley W. Jones, Denton, Texas, and Greg J. Scherer, Keller, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An optical fiber handler for optical connector termination systems and other devices are disclosed herein. The optical fiber handler attaches to the optical fiber or cable and cooperates with other components for preparing the optical fiber and/or making the optical connection, thereby providing a simple, reliable, and easy termination for the optical fiber. For instance, the handler may cooperate with one or more of the following a strip tool, strip/clean tool, cleave tool for preparing the end of the optical fiber(s), and/or a mechanical splice connector for making the optical connection. Additionally, after the optical fiber handler is attached to the mechanical splice connector it may be easily removed by the craft if necessary to reposition and reterminated the mechanical splice." The patent application was filed on Jan. 14, 2011 (13/006,906). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,459,877&OS=8,459,877&RS=8,459,877 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. SR0617HP0617-890196 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]