US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Oct. 6 for "High density, low diameter cable with rollable fiber optic ribbon" (Polish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,388, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"High density, low diameter cable with rollable fiber optic ribbon" was invented by Gerhard Merbach (Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany) and Sebastian Olszewski (Lodz, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high density, low diameter optical fiber ribbon cable is provided. The cable includes a polymeric outer cable jacket and a plurality of flexible optical fiber ribbons. The cable includes a relatively high number of optical fibers despite a relatively small outer diameter. The flexible optical fiber ribbons are located within the cable jacket wit...