US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on May 12 for "High density optical splitter with internal fanout device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,339, issued on May 12, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"High density optical splitter with internal fanout device" was invented by Alan Duncan Burkett (Bedford, Texas), William Julius McPhil Giraud (Azle, Texas) and Lingling Hu (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical splitter module for splitting an input signal from an input optical fiber is provided. The optical splitter module includes the input optical fiber, output optical fibers, and a splitter device configured to split the input signal from the input optical fiber into a plurality of output signals that are each direct...