ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,951, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sterlite Technologies Ltd. (Gurugram, India).

"Method of intermittently bonding optical fibers and intermittently bonded optical fiber ribbon using the method" was invented by Badri Gomatam (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of deriving a bonding pattern for intermittently bonding optical fibers includes generating a random number, which is an integer, converting the integer into a binary series corresponding to a width-bonding pattern, applying the width-bonding pattern at a predefined position along a width of the intermittently bonded optical fiber ribbon (100) and repeat...