ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,613, issued on Sept. 23, 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 substrate having a tubular shape and an inner surface surrounding a central longitudinal axis of the hollow-core optical fiber; a hollow core extending through the substrate along the central longitudinal axis of the hollow-...