US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Sept. 8 for "Optical fiber cable with welded armor layer" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,276, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Optical fiber cable with welded armor layer" was invented by Taylor Buckley Towery (Morganton, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical communication cable and related method is provided. The cable includes a cable body and a plurality of optical transmission elements surrounded by the cable body. The cable includes a reinforcement layer surrounding the plurality of optical transmission elements and located between the cable body and the plurality of optical transmission elements. The reinforcement layer includes a first portion and a...