US Patent Issued on Nov. 25 for "Flexible sealing assembly for optical fiber draw furnace and optical fiber" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,752, issued on Nov. 25.

"Flexible sealing assembly for optical fiber draw furnace and optical fiber" was invented by Anant Pawale (Haryana, India), Milind Patil (Haryana, India), Anand Pandey (Haryana, India) and Pankaj Priyadarshi (Haryana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible sealing assembly (100) for an optical fiber draw furnace (500) comprising a first plurality of curved ring sections (110) arranged in a circular arrangement and a plurality of tension loaders (114) exerting continuous radially inward force on at least one curved ring section. Each curved ring section of the first plurality of curved ring sections (1...