US Patent Issued to CORNING on May 12 for "Method of manufacturing an optical fiber and production system therefor" (American, French, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,951, issued on May 12, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Method of manufacturing an optical fiber and production system therefor" was invented by Maxim Evgenyevich Blyum (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Elena Alekseevna Chizhova-Notkina (Valbonne, France) and Nikolay Anatolyevich Panin (Wilmington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing optical fiber in an optical fiber production system is provided. The method includes providing a draw furnace operatively coupled to a slow cooling device along a draw pathway, drawing the optical fiber from an optical fiber preform in the draw furnace and along the draw ...