US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on June 23 for "Optical devices having externally field-configurable splitting ratios and methods of using the same" (German, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,602, issued on June 23, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Optical devices having externally field-configurable splitting ratios and methods of using the same" was invented by Michael De Jong (Colleyville, Texas), Andreas Matiss (Berlin), Carmi Shapira (D.N. Modiin, Israel) and Eric Stephan ten Have (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Field-configurable optical devices and methods are disclosed. In one example, a field-configurable optical device includes a housing defining an enclosure, a splitter disposed within the enclosure and having one or more splitter inputs and a plurality of splitter o...