ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,773, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RAYLASE GmbH (Wessling, Germany).
"Contamination-safe optical coupling device" was invented by Reinold Wischnewski (Utting, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention refers to an optical fiber coupling device for ensuring contamination-free coupling and uncoupling of an optical fiber to a further optical component. The optical fiber coupling device comprises a lid mechanism for opening and closing an axial channel of the optical fiber coupling device. The lid mechanism comprises a driver element and a lid element. The driver element is arranged on an exterior side of a main coupling ...