US Patent Issued to CORNING on May 12 for "Optical fiber draw production systems, pressure devices and methods applying pressure to optical fiber" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,949, issued on May 12, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Optical fiber draw production systems, pressure devices and methods applying pressure to optical fiber" was invented by Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias (Horseheads, N.Y.), Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.), Bruce Warren Reding (Corning, N.Y.), Pushkar Tandon (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Kevin Lee Wasson (Elmira, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical fiber draw production systems, pressure devices, and methods of fabrication of optical fiber are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of forming an optical fiber includes heating a preform to draw the optical fiber through a ...