US Patent Issued to CORNING on June 2 for "Photonic lanterns comprising optical fibers having up-down doped claddings" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,033, issued on June 2, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Photonic lanterns comprising optical fibers having up-down doped claddings" was invented by William Allen Wood (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Jiangtao Wu (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic lantern includes three or more optical fibers housed within a glass capillary, each optical fiber includes a core and a cladding. The photonic lantern tapers between a first and second end such that a diameter of the glass capillary is greater at the first end than the second end and the cladding of at least two of the three or more optical fibers comprises an...