US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 12 for "Apparatuses and methods for facilitating hollow core fiber splicing evacuation" (Georgia, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,322, issued on May 12, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Apparatuses and methods for facilitating hollow core fiber splicing evacuation" was invented by Ricky Perry (Cumming, Ga.) and Byoung-Jo J. Kim (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, applying a contaminant-mitigation technique to a chamber, wherein the chamber seats a first end of a first hollow core fiber (HCF) and a second end of a second HCF, cutting a first portion of the first end, resulting in a first exposed end, cutting a second portion of the second end, resulting in a secon...