US Patent Issued to Intel on June 23 for "Optical fiber positioning apparatus" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,590, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optical fiber positioning apparatus" was invented by Richard Laming (Livingston, Great Britain) and Nicholas D. Psaila (Lanark, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for positioning one or more optical fibers relative to the apparatus, comprises a body comprising material, and one or more fiber alignment structures defined in the material of the body, wherein each fiber alignment structure is configured to accommodate a corresponding optical fiber, and wherein each fiber alignment structure is configured to induce one or more bends along t...