US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on July 7 for "Direction independent fiber optic ribbon with multicore optical fibers and method of making same" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,950, issued on July 7, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Direction independent fiber optic ribbon with multicore optical fibers and method of making same" was invented by Qi Wu (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fiber optic ribbons and methods of making a fiber optic ribbon. The fiber optic ribbon includes one or more first multicore optical fibers each having a first core pattern and a first draw direction and a like number of second multicore optical fibers each having a second core pattern that is the same as the first core pattern and a second draw direction that is opposite the...