US Patent Issued to nLIGHT on Oct. 6 for "Fiber connector bulkhead adapter with shroud for protecting high-power fiber" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,385, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to nLIGHT Inc. (Camas, Wash.).

"Fiber connector bulkhead adapter with shroud for protecting high-power fiber" was invented by C Geoffrey Fanning (Portland, Ore.), Reese R. Siegel (Vancouver, Wash.) and Aaron Ludwig Hodges (La Center, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber connector bulkhead adapter for coupling a fiber connector to bulkhead optics is configured to inhibit back reflections from damaging a laser system. The adapter includes a bore sized to receive a fiber ferrule of a fiber connector, a mounting base having a centrally located shroud, and an aperture between the end of the bore ...