US Patent Issued to Corning on April 21 for "Hollow-core optical fibers and methods for producing the same" (New York, North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,800, issued on April 21, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Hollow-core optical fibers and methods for producing the same" 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 method for producing a hollow-core preform may include rolling a glass sheet to form a rolled-glass structure; and attaching one or more of the rolled-glass structures to an inner surface of an annular support structure to form a...