US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 25 for "Large-NA connector for CPO applications" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,093, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Large-NA connector for CPO applications" was invented by Norbert Schlepple (Macungie, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical connector is provided. The optical connector includes an optical fiber and a ferrule mated with the optical fiber. The ferrule has a lens spaced from an end of the optical fiber. The lens is configured to focus an optical signal received from the optical fiber to converge to a beam waist before diverging thereafter."

The patent was filed on July 21, 2023, under Application No. 18/356,811.

*For further information, includ...