US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on July 14 for "Configurable optical devices having an optical splitter and duplex connector" (American, Israeli, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,238, issued on July 14, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Configurable optical devices having an optical splitter and duplex connector" was invented by Michael De Jong (Colleyville, Texas), Carmi Shapira (D.N. Modiin, Israel) and Eric Stephan ten Have (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical devices including an optical splitter and a duplex optical connector are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical device includes an optical splitter having an input, a network output, and a pass-through output, wherein the optical splitter is configured to split an input signal received at the input int...