US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Feb. 10 for "Optical fibers, optical fiber assemblies, and optical connections having an array of optical fibers" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,934, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Optical fibers, optical fiber assemblies, and optical connections having an array of optical fibers" was invented by Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Qi Wu (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an optical fiber includes an inner core having a core refractive index delta and profile shape parameter Alpha in the range of 1.8 to 2.6, including endpoints, and a cladding layer surrounding the inner core. The cladding layer includes an inner cladding segment having an inner refractive index delta, a trench segmen...