US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 28 for "Altering refractive index of an expanded beam connector lens" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,506, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Altering refractive index of an expanded beam connector lens" was invented by Faezeh Gholami (Ridgewood, N.J.), Rafaela Frota (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.) and Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for altering refractive index of an expanded beam connector lens include receiving signals from an expanded beam connector, detecting a decibel loss of the signals in the expanded beam connector that exceeds a loss threshold, and directing, via a transmitter inclu...