ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,637, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Uncoupled multicore optical fiber with alkali doped, off-set trench cores" was invented by Pushkar Tandon (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Aramais Robert Zakharian (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of current disclosure include a multicore optical fiber including a common-cladding region having a refractive index trianglecc and an outer radius RCC; and at least two core portions disposed within the common-cladding region, wherein each core portion includes a central axis, a core region extending from the central axis to an outer radius ri, whe...