ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,750, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RAM Photonics Interconnects LLC (Webster, N.Y.).

"Method and system for aligning and splicing polarization maintaining fibers" was invented by Joseph Lawson (Rochester, N.Y.), Jordan Leidner (Rochester, N.Y.) and Per Adamson (Conesus, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments and methods relating to an optical fiber alignment and splicing system are described herein. The optical fiber alignment and splicing system includes a first rotation stage having a first central axis, a first end, and a second end, and a second rotation stage having a second central axis, a third end, and ...