ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,039, issued on May 5, was assigned to Photonicore Technologies Co. Ltd. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Optical fiber combiner with a heat sink and method of dissipating heat using same in a vacuum" was invented by Yu-Hsiang Lin (Tainan, Taiwan) and Chin-Feng Su (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber combiner includes optical fiber components including a predetermined area and a refractive index portion formed on the predetermined area; a housing including a channel with the optical fiber components disposed through, fastening members for fastening the optical fiber components, and a cover for sealing the channel; and a ...