ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,389, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Intermittently bonded optical fiber ribbon and method of preparing same" was invented by Julie Ann Chalk (Hickory, N.C.), David Wesley Chiasson (Edmonton, Canada), Jeffrey Dean Danley (Hickory, N.C.), Gregory Alan Mills (Clemmons, N.C.), Christopher Mark Quinn (Hickory, N.C.), Zhaoxu Tian (Hickory, N.C.), Bin Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaomin Zhao (Hickory, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber ribbon. The optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of subunits each including a subunit coa...