US Patent Issued to CORNING on Sept. 22 for "Low-diameter optical fiber with low bend loss at large and small bend diameter, and intermediate effective area" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,926, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Low-diameter optical fiber with low bend loss at large and small bend diameter, and intermediate effective area" was invented by Peter Gottfried Hebgen (Wilmington, N.C.), Hazel Benton Matthews III (Wilmington, N.C.), Snigdharaj Kumar Mishra (Wilmington, N.C.) and Samantha Allissa Silver (Wilmington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides low-diameter optical fibers with intermediate effective area at 1550 nm that exhibit low macrobend loss at 1550 nm at bend diameters of 32 mm and 50 mm, low microbend loss at 1550 nm, and low attenu...