ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,456, issued on April 15, was assigned to B.G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS LTD. (Beer Sheva, Israel).
"Super-mode selective optical unit" was invented by Amiel Ishaaya (Ness Ziona, Israel) and Yakov Greenberg (Beer Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A super-mode selective optical unit that may include (i) a multicore fiber (MCF) that comprises one or more claddings, and multiple doped fiber cores located within one of the one or more claddings; and (ii) a multimode fiber (MMF) that comprises a first MMF end and a second MMF end; wherein the first MMF end is configured to receive optical signals from the MCF; wherein t...