US Patent Issued to Corning on Sept. 22 for "Fiber alignment system" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,938, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Fiber alignment system" was invented by Alejandro Aguilar (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Jinxin Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber alignment system is disclosed. The alignment system includes a reflective mirror, an image capturing system, and a data processing system. The reflective mirror is configured to simultaneously reflect a first illuminated image of a first optical fiber and a second illuminated image of a second optical fiber. The image capturing system is configured to receive the reflected first and second illuminate...