US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on May 5 for "Lens-based connector assemblies having precision alignment features and methods for fabricating the same" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,033, issued on May 5, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Lens-based connector assemblies having precision alignment features and methods for fabricating the same" was invented by Jeffery Alan DeMeritt (Painted Post, N.Y.) and James Scott Sutherland (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lens-based optical connector assemblies and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a lens-based connector assembly includes a glass-based optical substrate includes at least one optical element within the optical substrate, and at least one alignment feature positioned at an edge...