US Patent Issued to Corning Optical Communications on Aug. 25 for "Tools and methods for designing indoor and outdoor waveguide system networks" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,197, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Corning Optical Communications LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Tools and methods for designing indoor and outdoor waveguide system networks" was invented by James Garrett Dewell (Union Grove, N.C.), David Barth Hopper (Claremont, N.C.) and Joseph Clinton Jensen (Lawndale, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Design tools and methods of use for designing, ordering, and providing manufacturing and installation instructions for waveguide system networks include a system design tool including a location selection module to determine a selected location, a satellite imagery component to provide an image base...