US Patent Issued to VIAVI Solutions on April 7 for "Monitoring solvent in a fiber cleaning device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,585, issued on April 7, was assigned to VIAVI Solutions Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Monitoring solvent in a fiber cleaning device" was invented by Gordon MacKay (Seattle), Kevin Cassady (Monroe, Wash.), Peter Kriofske (Seattle), William Shawn Rosenau (Everett, Wash.) and Brad Basler (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for cleaning an end face of an optical fiber may apply a vacuum to a solvent tank, where the device includes a vacuum generator to apply the vacuum and the solvent tank. The device may receive, from a solvent reservoir and in response to applying the vacuum, solvent with the solvent tank. Additionally, ...