US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on June 30 for "Selective numerical aperture cladding light stripper" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,642, issued on June 30, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Selective numerical aperture cladding light stripper" was invented by Michael Lovelady (Mountain View, Calif.), Richard D. Faulhaber (San Carlos, Calif.) and Jeff Gregg (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a cladding light stripper includes an optical fiber that includes a core and an exterior cladding, and a light removal component. The exterior cladding of the optical fiber circumferentially surrounds the core of the optical fiber. The exterior cladding includes a first portion, a second portion, and an intermed...