ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,840, issued on May 19, was assigned to LS CABLE & SYSTEM LTD. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Optical cable" was invented by Man Su Lee (Dalseo-gu, South Korea) and Yu Hyoung Lee (Suseong-gu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates a multi-core optical cable with a plurality of optical units, in which damage to a core is prevented during the stripping of a jacket for connection or splitting of the optical cable, and the workability of stripping the jacket is improved."

The patent was filed on Aug. 5, 2022, under Application No. 18/286,635.

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