US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Sept. 23 for "Laser printed lensed optical fibers and associated methods" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,633, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Laser printed lensed optical fibers and associated methods" was invented by Jinxin Huang (Corning, N.Y.), Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.), Jie Liu (Painted Post, N.Y.), Ying Liu (Painted Post, N.Y.), Qi Wu (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Lei Yuan (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods of assembling a lensed optical fiber array by printing in situ a lens onto each optical fiber of an optical fiber array with an ultrafast laser system where the lens can be shaped to the optical fiber end face to...