US Patent Issued to Lightel Technologies on March 17 for "System and method for manufacturing all-fiber side-pump combiners with plurality of pumps" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,361, issued on March 17, was assigned to Lightel Technologies Inc. (Renton, Wash.).

"System and method for manufacturing all-fiber side-pump combiners with plurality of pumps" was invented by Shangyuan Huang (Bellevue, Wash.), Po-Chih Hsu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Hsuan-Chieh Chang (Bonney Lake, Wash.) and Pai-Sheng Shen (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an all-fiber side-pump combiner fabrication system and a control unit coupled to control operations of the all-fiber side-pump combiner fabrication system to produce a (N+1)x1 combiner with N side pump fibers."

The patent was filed on May 19, 2022, un...