US Patent Issued to Coherent Scotland on Dec. 23 for "Terminated hollow-core fiber with suspended fiber-end" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,583, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Coherent Scotland Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).

"Terminated hollow-core fiber with suspended fiber-end" was invented by Mara Galli (Glasgow, Great Britain), William Proudfoot (Livingston, Great Britain) and Andrew White (Livingston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminated hollow-core optical fiber includes an outer capillary having an end-face, a hollow-core optical fiber having a fiber-end located inside the outer capillary a non-zero distance away from the end-face of the outer capillary, a fiber jacket disposed on a surface of the hollow-core optical fiber, and an inner ca...