US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 9 for "Fiber array unit for flexible optical coupling" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,150, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fiber array unit for flexible optical coupling" was invented by Norbert Schlepple (Macungie, Pa.) and Neda Noble (Dover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fiber array units (FAUs) described herein include an FAU substrate with a coupling surface, an array of V-grooves formed in a FAU substrate, and a plurality of optical channels individually disposed in a respective V-groove of the array of V-grooves. The array of V-grooves and the optical channels are configured to position the optical channels along a curve defined in the coupling surface such ...