ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,591, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Hollow-core optical fibers" was invented by Paulo Clovis Dainese Jr. (Painted Post, N.Y.), Wei Jiang (Vestal, N.Y.), Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, N.Y.), Xiaojun Liang (Chino Hills, Calif.), Dan Trung Nguyen (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Ilia Andreyevich Nikulin (Wilmington, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hollow-core optical fiber may include a hollow core extending along a central longitudinal axis of the fiber; a substrate; a plurality of first cladding elements spaced apart from each other and positioned between the hollow core and the substrate, each of the first...