US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on July 21 for "Optical connector with window and corresponding curing methods thereof" (New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,681, issued on July 21, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Optical connector with window and corresponding curing methods thereof" was invented by Xiaole Cheng (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Joel Christopher Rosson (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a connector assembly and a corresponding method to cure bonding agent or adhesive in the connector assembly with light source(s) and without the addition of heat. Disclosed herein are various embodiments of bonding agents for use in adhering optical fibers to ferrules within optical connectors, and the methods for ...