US Patent Issued to CommScope Technologies on March 11 for "Mechanical performance of optical stranded cables" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,193, issued on March 11, was assigned to CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, N.C.).

"Mechanical performance of optical stranded cables" was invented by David J. Walker (Runcorn, Great Britain) and Kevin V. Bate (Warrington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable includes a cable core including a central strength member. A plurality of buffer tubes, with each buffer tube including a plurality of optical fibers therein, and a plurality of filler rods are stranded about the central strength member. A characterizing feature is that a diameter of each of the plurality of filler rods is larger than a diameter of each of the...