ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,591, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Method for dividing optical fibre" was invented by Simon Bawn (Romsey, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dividing an optical fibre comprises providing a hollow core optical fibre having a length, a cladding which comprises a microstructure, a hollow core surrounded by the cladding, and a negative pressure portion in which the pressure is below atmospheric pressure that extends over at least a portion of the length; and cleaving the hollow core optical fibre at a divide location within the negative pressure portion to ...