US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 3 for "Multicore fiber connectivity" (North Carolina, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,013, issued on June 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multicore fiber connectivity" was invented by Patrick Stephen Van Vickle (Apex, N.C.), Kurt Dehut (Oakland, Calif.) and Seth Dwyer (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ribbon can be formed from multicore fibers containing multiple cores. The ribbon can be marked at predetermined lengths. The ribbon can be cut at the predetermined lengths to form a plurality of ribbon pieces. The ends of the ribbon pieces can be spliced together based on the marks."

The patent was filed on March 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/710,298.

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