ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,854, issued on April 15, was assigned to Corning Research & Development Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Flexible indoor/outdoor high-fiber-count cable" was invented by George Cornelius Abernathy (Hildebran, N.C.), Mark Hanson Bushnell (Hickory, N.C.), Harold Edward Hudson II (Conover, N.C.), William Carl Hurley (Hickory, N.C.), Toua Lo (Hickory, N.C.) and William Welch McCollough Jr. (Lincolnton, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber cable that includes subunits is provided. The cable has an outer jacket having a thickness of at least 2.0 millimeters and that is made from a fire retardant polymer material having a PHRR value of...