ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,132, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Corp. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Intermittently bonded fiber optic ribbon" was invented by Martin Spreemann (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating an optical fiber ribbon is provided, the method including arranging a plurality of optical fibers adjacent to each other along a length of the optical fiber ribbon, applying an adhesive to the plurality of optical fibers, intermittently exposing the adhesive to a curing catalyst in at least one interstice between two adjacent optical fibers of the plurality of optical fibers to create bonding regions alon...