US Patent Issued to OFS Fitel on Dec. 2 for "Methods and apparatus for aligning and splicing optical fibers" (New Jersey, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,405, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to OFS Fitel LLC (Norcross, Ga.).

"Methods and apparatus for aligning and splicing optical fibers" was invented by Tristan Kremp (Somerset, N.J.), Yue Liang (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Robert L Lingle (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of aligning concatenated sections of multicore optical fiber incorporates the capability of intentionally changing core assignments as part of the azimuthal alignment process. The intentional changing of core assignments, referred to as offset clocking, compensates for differences in properties of the individual core regions in a way that reduces var...