US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 11 for "Indexed optical coupler for coupling optical fibers" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,687, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Indexed optical coupler for coupling optical fibers" was invented by Eli Warren (Wethersfield, Conn.) and Sebastian Martinez (Ivoryton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system is provided that includes a first optics line, a second optics line and an optical coupler removably connecting the first optics line to the second optics line. The first optics line includes a plurality of first optical fibers. The second optics line includes a plurality of second optical fibers. The optical coupler aligns an end of each of the first optical fibers with an e...