ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,027, issued on June 2, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Methods for producing hollow-core optical fibers" was invented by Matthew Ryan Drake (Painted Post, N.Y.), Richard Michael Fiacco (Corning, N.Y.), Sushmit Sunil Kumar Goyal (Painted Post, N.Y.), Brian Lee Harper (Painted Post, N.Y.), Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.), Matthew John Rice (Bath, N.Y.) and Matthew Artus Tuggle (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to various embodiments of methods for making an optical fiber. The methods may include drawing an optical fiber from a hollow-core preform. The hollow-core preform may i...