US Patent Issued to CORNING on May 12 for "Light-based optical fiber heaters using hollow light pipes" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,950, issued on May 12, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Light-based optical fiber heaters using hollow light pipes" was invented by Anthony Sebastian Bauco (Horseheads, N.Y.), Joel Patrick Carberry (Big Flats, N.Y.), Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.), Craig Daniel Nie (Corning, N.Y.), Vincent Matteo Tagliamonti (Rochester, N.Y.) and Chunfeng Zhou (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing an optical fiber that includes drawing an optical fiber along a fiber pathway through a hollow light pipe, wherein the hollow light pipe comprises a first end having an opening with a radius Rp, a second end ...