US Patent Issued to Corning on March 17 for "Amplifying optical fibers" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,359, issued on March 17, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Amplifying optical fibers" was invented by Kevin Wallace Bennett (Hammondsport, N.Y.) and Pushkar Tandon (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amplifying optical fiber includes a common cladding comprising a radius defining a glass portion of the amplifying optical fiber and having a relative refractive index triangle4. At least one waveguide extends through the common cladding The at least one waveguide includes a core region, an inner cladding region encircling and directly contacting the core region, and a depressed cladding region encircling ...