US Patent Issued to Corning on Sept. 22 for "Hollow-core optical fibers" (New York, North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,925, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Hollow-core optical fibers" was invented by Paulo Clovis Dainese Jr. (Painted Post, N.Y.), Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.), Xiaojun Liang (Chino Hills, Calif.), Dan Trung Nguyen (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Ilia Andreyevich Nikulin (Wilmington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hollow-core optical fiber may include a hollow-core extending along a central longitudinal axis of the hollow-core optical fiber; a substrate; a first cladding positioned between the central longitudinal axis and an inner surface of the substrate, the first cladding surrounding the central...