US Patent Issued to CORNING on July 21 for "Multicore optical fiber with reduced cross talk" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,673, issued on July 21, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Multicore optical fiber with reduced cross talk" was invented by Kevin Wallace Bennett (Hammondsport, N.Y.), Douglas Llewellyn Butler (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Pushkar Tandon (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multicore optical fiber including four cores arranged in a linear configuration, the centerline of each core being spaced from the centerline of an adjacent core by a distance x of about 30 microns or less, and each core having a relative refractive index triangle1. A cladding surrounding each of the four cores, the cladding including an inn...