US Patent Issued to Corning on April 14 for "Hollow-core optical fibers" (New York, North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,872, issued on April 14, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Hollow-core optical fibers" was invented by Paulo Clovis Dainese Jr. (Painted Post, N.Y.), Wei Jiang (Vestal, N.Y.), Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.), Xiaojun Liang (Chino Hills, Calif.), Dan Trung Nguyen (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Ilia Andreyevich Nikulin (Wilmington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hollow-core optical fiber may include a hollow core extending along a central longitudinal axis of the fiber; a substrate, the substrate having a tubular shape and an inner surface surrounding the central longitudinal axis of the fiber; and a plurality of cladding...