US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 12 for "Optical fibre assemblies and methods of use" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,318, issued on May 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Optical fibre assemblies and methods of use" was invented by Andrew Thomas Harker (Romsey, Great Britain), Andrew Paul Appleyard (Romsey, Great Britain), Raymond John Horley (Romsey, Great Britain) and Ian Dewi Lang (Romsey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fibre assembly comprises a hollow core optical waveguide comprising a hollow core surrounded by a structured arrangement of longitudinally extending capillaries providing an inner cladding surrounded by an outer cladding; a diagnostic solid core optical waveguide comp...