ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,408, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to 3SAE TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Self-learning fiber processing system and method" was invented by Robert G. Wiley (Franklin, Tenn.), John Lower (Franklin, Tenn.) and Brett Clark (Whites Creek, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for and a method of processing an optical fiber, such as tapering an optical fiber. The method includes receiving fiber parameters defining characteristics of an optical fiber, modeling an idealized fiber based on the fiber parameters to establish modeled data, and establishing processing parameters. A processing operation is performed o...