US Patent Issued to Corning on Oct. 14 for "Optical fiber draw furnace system and method" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,649, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Optical fiber draw furnace system and method" was invented by Erling Richard Anderson (Wilmington, N.C.), Tammy Michelle Hoffmann (Wilmington, N.C.), Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias (Horseheads, N.Y.), Kenneth William Roberts (Wilmington, N.C.), Eric Wade Thornton (Wilmington, N.C.) and Chunfeng Zhou (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber draw furnace system including a muffle, a downfeed handle, and a downfeed handle extension portion. The downfeed handle is moveably disposed within an inner cavity of the muffle. The downfeed handle extensi...