US Patent Issued to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT on Sept. 8 for "Stranded optical fiber cable" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,277, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Stranded optical fiber cable" was invented by Peter J. Johnston (Taylorsville, N.C.), Xiang-Dong Mi (Corning, N.Y.), Christopher Mark Quinn (Hickory, N.C.), Michael Sauer (Corning, N.Y.) and David Alan Seddon (Advance, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber cable comprises a plurality of buffer tubes, a hollow-core optical fiber disposed within one of the plurality of buffer tubes, and a central strength member. The plurality of buffer tubes are helically stranded about the central strength member, where a diameter d of the ce...