US Patent Issued to Corning on Sept. 9 for "Low-loss coupling between single-core and multi-core fibers" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,284, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Low-loss coupling between single-core and multi-core fibers" was invented by Stephan Lvovich Logunov (Corning, N.Y.) and Pushkar Tandon (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupler including a first end that optically couples with a plurality of single-core optical fibers, a second end that optically couples with a multi-core optical fiber, and a plurality of cores that each extends from the first end to the second end. The plurality of cores comprising a first core such that an outer diameter of the first core at the first end is larger than an o...