US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 14 for "Dual lens optical coupling to multicore fiber" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,991, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dual lens optical coupling to multicore fiber" was invented by Weizhuo Li (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Norbert Schlepple (Macungie, Pa.) and Jock T. Bovington (Koenigstein Im Taunus, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The optical devices described herein include a lens arrangement for coupling light between light sources and optical fibers with a reduced size compared to the use of optical waveguides, while also allowing for the use of power sensitive optical components, such as components with lower power density configurations. The lens arrangements...