US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Nov. 3 for "Systems, apparatus, and methods for alignment of integrated waveguides and optical fibers" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,659, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Systems, apparatus, and methods for alignment of integrated waveguides and optical fibers" was invented by Lars Martin Otfried Brusberg (Corning, N.Y.), Jason Roy Grenier (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Jurgen Matthies (Ruhr, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for aligning a substrate with an optical fiber. A system comprises an optical fiber and a substrate with one or more optical waveguides, guide pin(s), and a substrate body comprising a receiving feature configured to receive and connect with the guide pin(s)....