US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on July 21 for "Fiber holders and associated methods for maintaining relative orientiation of fibers therein" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,679, issued on July 21, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Fiber holders and associated methods for maintaining relative orientiation of fibers therein" was invented by Douglas Llewellyn Butler (Painted Post, N.Y.), Jeffrey Scott Clark (Lindley, N.Y.), David Evan Robinson (Corning, N.Y.) and James Scott Sutherland (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for maintaining relative orientation of optical fibers in an array is provided. Fibers extend parallel and include a first fiber and an adjacent fiber. The system includes a fiber holder with alignment holes configured to receive...