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Article: California Inventors Develop Optical Communications Device Enclosure
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- November 6, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- Kirk S. Giboney of Mountain View, Calif., and Jonathan Simon of San Leandro, Calif., have developed an enclosure for an optical communications device with a lid portion and a base portion.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Alignment members adapted to interface with an optical connector are formed on the lid portion. The lid portion is affixed to the base portion with a portion of the communications components therebetween. Multiple base portions formed in a unitary piece of material and multiple lid portions formed in another unitary piece of material can be affixed to one another, and then separated into individual devices to minimize time ...